I am venturing into the deep unknown with this one.
I am going to be installing postfix and ultimately Thunderbird. I am
doing this so I can understand how mail servers work and I like
Thunderbird. My situation is this:
Currently I multi-boot with Mepis, Suse, LFS/BLFS (working on now), and
Windows XP (yeah I know, you don't have to say it). LFS/BLFS does not
have any type of e-mail function yet (have not installed, configured,
etc.). With the other distros, I have a shared fat32 partition that I
use so that I can retrieve/read my e-mail from any booted situation.
What I would like to do is preserve this set-up (until I can abandon the
others for my own build) and I want to utilize Postfix and Thunderbird
on the LFS/BLFS (I have named 'Blytheworks').
Anyway, I have not installed these two packages yet (working my way up
to it), but I want to know if installing Postfix may wreck my current
e-mail set-up. I promise to read the man pages and do my research.
Also, I will not auto-start the mail server until I understand this
more. My hope is that someone in the community who uses Postfix may
shed some light on what I am going to do. I know I am fishing, but this
is completely new and unknown territory for me.
I will also make a back-up of my current e-mail file(s) in case I botch
the whole thing.
Any insights you may have will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
rblythe
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