Afternoon all, I'd like to set up a little box to be a local mail server. It would receive mails from other machines on the LAN, and it would fetch POP3 mail from my ISP and IMAP mail from google mail. KMail on my workstation would then read the mails via IMAP. That's all. I might want to add a few extras later, such as receiving SMTP mail for a .me domain I own. My present total of emails is about 4000.
I used to have a working system on a box that's now deceased [1], but in replicating it I'm having difficulty threading my way through the mutually inconsistent Gentoo mail server docs, omitting the bits I don't need and interpreting the rest. Bits I don't need? Database backend, web-mail access, web admin tools, fancy multi-user authorisation, any other baroque complexity. So I'm asking what systems other people use. I can't be unusual in what I want, so there must be lots of solutions out there somewhere. Would anyone like to offer me some advice? 1. Yes, of course I did have backups, but in juggling the media I managed to lose them. A world of advice to others: don't grow old. :) -- Regards, Peter.
