Hello,
I have several e-mail addresses, and to make it easier to read them all,
I use fetchmail to get the messages from the servers and deliver them to
one local account. And I have a POP3 server running so I can read that
local account's mail from e.g. thunderbird or even from my cell phone.
My advice would be to set up postfix with Dovecot imap. Both are well
documented and, I find, they work well together. Both are fairly straight
forward to set-up as from your post I understand that it's mainly to manage
your own email which would require a basic configuration with some added
s
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:26:22 +0100
Rolf Nielsen articulated:
> Moreover, I'd like to use maildir instead of a single file mailbox,
> so I'd like to switch from sendmail to e.g. postfix.
>
> The problem is that my knowledge about e-mail configuration is
> somewhat limited. I've found several tuto
On 08/01/2011 12:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> So here's what I want to do.
>
> 1. Have fetchmail get the messages.
Should not be a problem.
> 2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver
> them locally to a maildir.
While you can use an MTA it's not actually necessary in
On 01/08/11 13:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
1. Have fetchmail get the messages.
2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver
them locally to a maildir.
3. Have either a POP3 or an IMAP server from which I can retrieve the
messages to whichever client I choose.
I'm using
2011-01-08 16:01, Matthew Seaman skrev:
On 08/01/2011 12:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
So here's what I want to do.
1. Have fetchmail get the messages.
Should not be a problem.
2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver
them locally to a maildir.
While you can use an
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:01:49 +
Matthew Seaman articulated:
> dovecot works very well serving Maildir via IMAP. As mentioned
> elsethread, dovecot v2 isn't really stable yet. Also lacks some of
> the add-ons like managesieve. For a quiet life, stick to dovecot
> v1 for the moment.
I am
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 16:55:17 +0100
Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> Thanks to all who've replied so far. Matthew's ideas strike me as the
> most interesting ones, and I will certainly explore them and see if I
> can get it working.
> I guess I should have explained in my original post that I neither
> nee
2011-01-08 13:26, Rolf Nielsen skrev:
Hello,
I have several e-mail addresses, and to make it easier to read them all,
I use fetchmail to get the messages from the servers and deliver them to
one local account. And I have a POP3 server running so I can read that
local account's mail from e.g. thu
On Saturday 15 of January 2011 22:45:23, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> Thanks for the input I received from you guys. I've got things running
> in a way I'm quite happy with now. And with your input and a little
> further digging on my part, it turned out to be pretty simple.
>
> I kept sendmail, set up d
2011-01-17 11:04, Maciej Milewski skrev:
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>
> I find using ~/.forward for this a bit of an ugly hack, but as long as
> I'm the only one using this computer, I can live with it, though I would
> prefer to have it in /etc/mail/aliases instead, but that just gives me
> warnings about d
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