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hi,

Zarick Lau wrote:

| Well, what I'm going to achieve is, using my home server, to receive | and store my 
email from my ISP account, and I can easily setup | different
| desktop system to fetch my mail from the server with out the chance to
| lost my email and trouble in sync. different mail box in different
| box...

That's a pretty good idea.

| I have read some howtos only, and I think I can use fetchmail to get | my mail from 
isp, stored it on my server. Then I can setup a POP3 | server right.

with fetchmail you're right, you can get your e-mail with it. but if you want a synced 
mailbox from a server an some clients i would use imap rather than pop3.

| And my question is, which pop3 server is better?

i'm using courier-imap.

| Also, it seems that there are a few different mail box format is being
| used (mbox, maildir, etc), right? What should I choice to use?

mbox is the classic way, maildir is newer and works perfectly well for me.

here a link from the forums:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633

cheers chris

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