Hi Anthony, on Wednesday, 2005-12-28 at 10:38:12, you wrote: > 1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others > (eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for > different purposes and people already have these addresses.
As Alexander has pointed out, fetchmail is fine for that. That is, it
has a bad reputation with respect to code quality but I haven't checked
as it hasn't ever given me any trouble. Maybe there are alternatives,
but loads of people use it.
> [...]
> 3) I want to be able to access the same mail and mail folders from all
> machines, and the state of those mailboxes be mirrored on all the
> other machines.
Yup, an IMAP server seems to be the tool of choice here. At work I use
dovecot which works well together with postfix. It's a bit of work to
set up but it has sufficient documentation for that. I don't know of
anything easier, in fact I haven't tried much else except for some Cyrus
thing that came wit SuSE and that I didn't like.
> 4) I want to filter junk mail using SpamAssassin.
No idea really...I'd suggest to just install it and have a look into the
README(s). Many people use it with all kinds of MTAs---I haven't.
cheers!
Matthias
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