I have to agree with Jon. Fetchmail is what you are looking for as far as the consolidation of various mailboxes go.
Instant messaging is something different though. I don't think it would make sense to capture an "instant" message to email (cuz then it ain't instant), but you *could* use a tool like Kopete or Gaim to consolidate a number of instant messenger tools into one (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.) So for mail, I think you carn rely on Fetchmail and standard IMAP/POP3 for retrieval. This should also work with any PDA type devices. But I do think you'll still be using two apps - one for email, one for IM. Hope that helps. Shawn TekBudda wrote: > Hi All, > > Not sure what I am looking for but I have a few ideas. > > I am looking for something that I can load on my server at home and will > gather all of ymy e-mail from variouls sources (gmail, yahoo, shaw, > exchaneg server at work, etc.) & also allow those sources to piull data > from it as well. I deally it should have some IM functionality & sync > with Mobile devices (Windows CE & Palm). Obvioulsy open source & if > cross-platform (i.e LinWinMac) even better. I will be building a > Windows Active Directory envronment that I will hopefully get syncing > with OpenLDAP as well, so they should talk to thos also. Essentially I > want a place where Lisa & I can gather all of our information together & > pull it from any source (web, application on a USB key, work, etc.) > . > A couple of the things I have looked at are zimbra and openexchange, but > I don't know if these are to big or not enough. I have also thought > that maybe all i need is a Mail Tranfer AGent (i think thats it) that > can connect to thunderbird, outlook, webmail, etc. > > Any ideas anyone wants to throw my way? > > Cameron > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
