Lots of people have tried to talk me into using GMail for my mail needs too -- and I have a similar volume to Brad's. But I have to confess -- I'd kinda like my mail to live on a box I own, anything else makes me a little.. queasy.
Having said that, my procmail filters are set up to redirect all unexpected and/or unknown mail through a GMail layer that filters out all the spam for me, and I find that pretty useful. Ankur On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Roy Verrips wrote: > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:17:41 +0400 > From: Roy Verrips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [dubailug] Mobile mail solution > > I've tried various solutions, and although my needs aren't quite as complex > as yours, perhaps what worked for me will for you too .... no it's not > totally open source, and it may not serve you when you're catching up on > mails at 35000 feet but it will do the following: > > - Retrieve all you POP mail into one account, but lable from where each came, > and allow you to reply from each as originally sent > - Offers excellect SPAM filtering > - All ports used (imap, pop, smtp, www) are secure derivitives > - IMAP sync will work with Thunderbird, but I can't comment on it's > performance > - Has an amazing search facility, meaning you don't really need to sort your > mail by folders anymore, just archive 'em all and then search when needed > - Has a neat wap frontend, as well as Java based client for your > mobile/blackberry that really works efficiently (I run it on a Nokia E61) > - Has a websolution for when you're on your client site, that is actually > VERY usable. > > If you haven't guessed it by now, it's Gmail - 6GB of storage means you > import your existing 3GB of IMAP data and still have half left, and if you > have a number of users (i.e. Not just you) there's Google Apps for your domain > > Don't get me wrong, I love linux, and all the fun of setting up a mail > server, but with 1000 mails a day I don't know where you'll get the time > man!? Besides, aren't there some perl scripts you'd rather be writing? > > Yours for the cause of Opensource > > Roy > > ------- Original message ------- > From: Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 3/3/'08, 14:22 > >> G'day all, >> >> I'm starting to reach the limit of my current mail config scalability. >> At the moment I'm running thunderbird on my laptop. This has accounts for 8 >> pop servers and has over >> 50 mail filtering rules. I use a single SMTP server to send mail from all >> the accounts via an >> OpenVPN link from wherever I happen to be. I generally get about 1000 mails >> per day. >> >> My issues are : >> >> A) My connections are often laggy and unreliable enough that my pop3 >> sessions time out (I do a lot >> of work on various sites with lousy loaded connections). When I have 1000 >> mails to download this >> causes problems like duplicated messages and filter mistakes in thunderbird, >> notwithstanding the >> time required to just get the messages if I happen to be on a slow link. >> >> B) Sending e-mail (particularly large ones) tends to be very slow on laggy >> links, and while I have a >> tcp connection open (smtp or pop) thunderbird beats the living daylights out >> of my cpu. >> >> C) I have to use my laptop for my mail, even when I'm at home and have >> access to a nice fast machine >> with a big screen (laptop is 11.1"). I have resorted to using thunderbird on >> the laptop over a >> remote X connection to my desktop to give me more screen realestate. >> >> I have thought about this a bit and figured it was time to centralise my >> mail collection at home >> where I have a nice quick link using fetchmail, filtering with procmail, >> spam filtering with >> spamassassin and accessability with IMAP. In addition to running a local >> SMTP caching server at home. >> >> I've been doing some looking about and see that Cyrus IMAP supports >> replication, so I wondered if I >> had this all set up at home whether I could run a Cyrus IMAP server on my >> laptop to access locally >> and have the servers replicate as they get the chance at their own pace over >> whatever connectivity >> is available. >> >> I know I can run a local smtp spool on my laptop to solve the sending CPU >> issues, but I wonder if a >> pair of IMAP servers syncing will solve my mail spool issues? >> >> The idea of course is to have the home machine >> fetching/filtering/de-spamming and loading the mail >> into the IMAP server which I can access while I'm at home, but to also have >> it replicate to my >> laptop when it's connected so that I can read my mail wherever I may be. >> (Sometimes I catch up on a >> couple of thousand lkml mails at 38,000 feet so IMAP over the network would >> be no use to me). >> >> I'm not fussed about the mail spool size on my laptop (at any time I >> generally have about 3G of mail >> on there anyway), but I'd like to be able to read/delete/archive mail while >> I'm offline and have it >> all sync up while downloading anything new when I plug in. >> >> From what I see with the brief look I've had at Cyrus replication, it uses a >> form of >> journalling/conflict resolution that should allow precisely what I want. >> >> Has anyone looked into any of this? >> >> Brad >> -- >> "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability >> to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable >> for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams >> >> > > > > Yahoo! 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