Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: I'm pretty sure that this is possible, but I don't currently know enough about email to know where to start. My main desktop computer runs Centos 6 and my preferred email client is Sylpheed, which supports both POP

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 16:52:42 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: Hard to beat a free gmail account - if you are concerned about privacy, you probably shouldn't be sending the stuff over the internet in the first place. I figure that if my data lives on my computer, I know where it is and I can read it,

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-07 Thread Gary Greene
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [centos-boun...@centos.org] on behalf of Frank Cox [thea...@melvilletheatre.com] Alternatively your android device is perfectly capable of dealing with 6 remote servers directly. The reason for handling outbound email this way instead of sending it

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:37:31 + Gary Greene wrote: Being a mail administrator for both work, and a couple of other sites, the only concern I would have with this is that you need to be fairly careful that the outgoing is routing out a machine that is authorized to send mail for these

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: Hard to beat a free gmail account - if you are concerned about privacy, you probably shouldn't be sending the stuff over the internet in the first place. I figure that if my data lives on my computer, I know where

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013 18:37:40 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: Android could reply back through the account directly. Your complications are coming from combining things in the first place. I can't reply directly from my phone because of restrictions on the mailservers. Gmail and friends don't care,

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: Android could reply back through the account directly. Your complications are coming from combining things in the first place. I can't reply directly from my phone because of restrictions on the mailservers. Gmail

[CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-05 Thread Frank Cox
I'm pretty sure that this is possible, but I don't currently know enough about email to know where to start. My main desktop computer runs Centos 6 and my preferred email client is Sylpheed, which supports both POP and IMAP email, and my internal network has a static IP address, so getting access

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-05 Thread Paul Shuttleworth
I'm pretty sure that this is possible, but I don't currently know enough about email to know where to start. My main desktop computer runs Centos 6 and my preferred email client is Sylpheed, which supports both POP and IMAP email, and my internal network has a static IP address, so getting

Re: [CentOS] Email access via Android device

2013-10-05 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 10:43:34 AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: What is the best way to approach this? the one you already mentioned: set up fetchmail (or something) to do the pop downloads of incoming mail, and have some kind of a local imap server running though which I access the actual mail