Hardware requirements for a mail server:
Minimal, minimal, minimal...
Got an old Pentium 75 (90, 100...)?
Stuff some disk space in it, and feed it some ram, and you're on your way.
You'll need postfix, to send/receive mail, and imap. Both of which almost install out of the box & work. Very little involved in setting that up.
Then to get your mail, just use Mozilla Mail, or Evolution. (a word of caution, I've noticed Evolution to have stability problems, often just hanging, requiring that I force a log out, and kill it (if you get lucky, you can kill it with "killev".).
Mozilla is the more stable of the two.
Then set up your imap folders on the server (I'll give you a hand off list if you want). And you're on the road.
Well, ok, it's not quite THAT easy, but almost!
Ric
bascule wrote:
well ric has it right:)
what i want is to not lose the geek toy that kmail (
and one assumes, other clients) gives me which is mail identities and associating posting addresses with folders, as my original post
indicated i'm aware of procmail and server filtering which, large setups aside, would
be fine for myself, my daughter and a few boxes, my question was a shot in
the dark really,wondering whether there was some way other than a remote
session to avoid the individual client configuration so as to provide the 'geek-toys':)
as i have never actually used imap and/or fetchmail with procmail and
all the googling i did told me how to install them but little about what they 'couldn't do' i thought it worth asking. configuring only a few mail
clients might not seem a big deal bit i won't have learnt anything new,plus
there still remains the question of access from outside, vnc i think, here i
come,
which begs the question what is the minimum hardware to run a box that
runs a vnc server and email client and precious little else? i'm hoping its not
very much 'cos that's all i got! ideally i will be accessing from other
machines - say, my mothers, over the net in which case i can install vnc on it, but
of course i may have to install some web client for this if i want to get
my mail from a mates box, features aside, what woud that do to hardware requirements?
bascule
On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 5:12 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> All the rest is just techno-geek toys. I, and my users, just wantto>read our mail. I'm not going to go to excessive measures on theserversmake that happen. IMAP does the job exceedingly well, and itserves toany client, be it Linux, Mac, or Windows. I can check my mail fromanyclient, anywhere in the world. As long as it properly supportsIMAPfiltering.
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