Ah, good old Randy. I can always count on your replay to questions. I am going to search around for more info. I will let you know if I ever got it working the way I want.
Robin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Randy Kramer > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 6:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail question > > > Robin, > > I'd like to try to help. The sketches at > http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TestSketch may be of > some help to get a general understanding of how email works > in, for example, a LAN > -- I'm in the process of setting up (learning how) my own > email server for very similar purposes. I am in the process > of developing more. > (Those sketches have been "vetted" by at least one person who > has a better handle on how email works, but there may be some > errors or > ambiguity.) > > Part of the key is fetchmail (or getmail) which can be set up > to fetch mail from one or more popservers and bring it to > your email server. You may need a separate fetchmail task > for each pop3 server -- I really don't know yet. Also, you > can include fetchmail in a cron job to run it periodically > automatically. > > My next step is to study up on postfix and then develop a > block diagram for postfix. > > If you (or anybody else) has comments on the sketches (or > anything else) feel free to write to me or register and edit > the page yourself. I'd prefer to edit the drawings myself, > for the time being -- I'm trying to strike a balance between > simplicity and totally complete and accurate detail, and > maintain a similar style across all the sketches. (Someone > has edited the first sketch and made some style changes (font > sizes) inconsistent with the other sketches.) > > Randy Kramer > > Robin wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am having a bit of mail problem but don't know where to start. I > > want to set up a mail server which supports pop, imap and > webmail, and > > I also need to collect mail from other mail server. > > > > Here comes the detail. I have 3 machines here, 1 running Win2k, 2 > > running mdk 8.1. One of the mdk machine is a dedicated server, the > > other 2 are my workstations. The server will have a sub domain with > > dns2go.com so I can host my own mail server. The reason for > using imap > > is simply that I don't have to download all my mail to all my > > workstations. To make the problem even harder, I also have email > > accounts with my ISP and Yahoo. I am hoping that it can be setup so > > the mail server would fetch my mail from other mail server and put > > them in the same place with other mail received by my own > mail server. > > > > To sum it up, in case you were confused by the last > section, I hope to > > setup a mail server, which will host mail for local domain > and fetch > > mail from other pop3 server and put everything in one place > so I can > > access all mail from any other workstation using IMAP. > Webmail is for > > accessing mail from outside network. > > > > I did some search, seems horde could solve some of the > problem. I am > > also hoping address book would stay on the server so when I > move from > > machine to machine, I don't have to re enter them. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated > > > > Robin > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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