Zarick Lau wrote:

Hi,

Thanks Elton, A~~yvind, Norbert and Christopha first, I really got more
solid idea on what should I do, however...

It seems that your solution has suggested exim/qmail/postfix, but my ISP
has port the incoming 25port, that why I initially stated that I'd like
to use fetch mail to act as a POP3 client from the isp pop3 server. With
my limited knowledge, postfix (and the likes) are MTA so, what do it
fullfil my needs,
except relay my outgoing mail to a ISP smtp server?



Yep, it looks like you are reallynot familiar with e-mail service ...
so I'll try to describe little bit more my solution:

1- my incoming mailbox is somewhere on ISP's server,
which supports POP3 only

2- On my home server I installed an configured
qmail + courier imap + sqwebmail + ... + fetchmail + ...

3- e-mails from ISP to my server are taken by fetchmail
(running from crontab) and then delivered locally
to maildir's for (virtual) users by qmail

4- for serving messages (stored in maildirs) I setup IMAP server
to have it much more flexible

5- If I like to read messages, I need some client to IMAP
server ... it can be Mozilla, Kmail .... and sqwebmail
installed on any PC (including local server)
(since I have sqwebmail, browser is enough)

In this way I see from any client the same ...
so if I make new mail folder in Mozilla, it appears on
webmail too ...

6. For outgoing mail I do not use ISP, but my qmail delivers
it directly. (It is faster.)

U need to send e-mails using ISP rellay only in case u are
on dialup line and/or u do not have direct connection to inet.

noro






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