Auke Jilderda, 2002-Oct-23 20:47 +0200: > Ofcourse you can go fo either the most simple setup or a more flexible > one. > > Jeff is looking for a simple setup which would, in my humble opinion, > probably be some MUA (e.g. Mozilla) fetch mails directly from your POP3 > and IMAP accounts and sending mail through your ISP's mailserver.
Yup, that's what I was going for. > Nate described a much more flexible setup which I, in fact, have. In my > setup, fetchmail fetches my mail from various POP3 accounts and delivers > it through Exim and procmail to the proper mailboxes. The courier-imap > server provides access to the mailboxes, giving me both location and MUA > independence. My reasons for wanting those two capabilities is that I > want a text based client (Mutt) when on the road and without proper > mouse and keyboard and a GUI client (KMail, Ximian Evolution, > SquirrelMail) when at my dockingstation. Ofcourse I can send you my > config files and a more detailed description of my setup if you'd like. Personally, I prefer and use this for the flexibility too. I use mutt, postfix, maildrop and fetchmail. > In addition, it is wise to install a mailserver on your local machine if > only because lots of daemons would like to use it to tell you things. This is the only thing I haven't done [yet]. It's on my list to do though. > > Auke cya, jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
