On 3/7/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to set up a very modest home mail server that will collect emails from > other pop3 servers and make them available to 2 or 3 users using 1 or more > different clients on 2 or 3 computers. > [snip] > I have spent way to much time trying to get courier running only to find that > (a) it doesn't work and (b) it doesn't seem to be able to fetch mail from an > external server. I then installed fetchmail, but can't find any howtos on > installing it as a service, or any clear explanation of how it plays > alongside courier or any other imap server.
>From "man fetchmail": "The --daemon <interval> or -d <interval> option runs fetchmail in daemon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds." Two things that may help searching for that sort of thing in the future: 1) "services" as you know them on Windows are referred to as "daemons" on Linux/UNIX and 2) if you are in man or less, "/" (forward slash) begins a search, and then "n" repeats the search (after typing it and hitting enter). > The absolute #1 consideration is that the system must be easy to set up and > easy to move to another machine when the time comes. > > smtp is not important at the moment because the isp smtp service usually > works. Unfortunately, what you describe is not a simple or common setup, so "easy to set up" may be a difficult goal to accomplish. Also, fetchmail expects an SMTP service to which it can deliver the mail it receives. It seems to me that the minimum you need are: an SMTP server, a POP3 server, and fetchmail. You could probably get by the simplest by creating system actual users on the Gentoo mailserver box for each of the people in your scenario and setting up fetchmailconfs in each user's home directory. Then use the most basic SMTP and POP3 servers you can find (ssmtp may even work). Ironically, I've never set up such a simple configuration, so I can't guide you much further than that. Mickey -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
