[gentoo-user] How to set up a mail server

2003-06-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Hi have several POP accounts that I want to check/fetch using getmail (which I believe to be more reliable than fetchmail), then be able to check those accounts by POPing into the server that I have downloaded them to. I have managed to get getmail installed and working (putting retrieved emails

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a mail server

2003-06-05 Thread MooktaKiNG
Why not try and use IMAP instead of POP. there's a howto in gentoo.org for installing the courier-imap with ssl support. even better, install a webmail server too. Hi have several POP accounts that I want to check/fetch using getmail (which I believe to be more reliable than fetchmail), then

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a mail server

2003-06-05 Thread Shawn
I did it by having mail dropped into /var/mail/$USER, and qpopper just works then. I'm sure you can config qpopper to look elsewhere, but I really didn't care. On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:43, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Hi have several POP accounts that I want to check/fetch using getmail (which I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a mail server

2003-06-04 Thread Larry Wright
I second this. IMAP is much, much better. I am using fetchmail + qmail + courier-imap (with procmail and spamassassin thrown in for organizing my email and getting rid of most of the spam) and it works very well. I installed squirrelmail as well, and now I can access my email (via https) from