On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:03:32AM -0800, Robert Persson wrote: > I want to set up a very modest home mail server that will collect emails from > other pop3 servers and make them available to 2 or 3 users using 1 or more > different clients on 2 or 3 computers. I have become very confused by the > various howtos. Even the gentoo ones, which on other subjects are usually > very good, in this case assume an awful lot of arcane knowledge and also say > preposterous things, such as that xyz server is easy to set up when it quite > plainly isn't. > > I have spent way to much time trying to get courier running only to find that > (a) it doesn't work and (b) it doesn't seem to be able to fetch mail from an > external server. I then installed fetchmail, but can't find any howtos on > installing it as a service, or any clear explanation of how it plays > alongside courier or any other imap server. > > The absolute #1 consideration is that the system must be easy to set up and > easy to move to another machine when the time comes. > > smtp is not important at the moment because the isp smtp service usually > works.
You should consider using getmail with cron instead of fetchmail. It writes directly to maildir folders so you could probably do without a smtp server. To make those maildirs available over pop3 and imap you could use the fairly lightweight dovecot imap server. -- gerrit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
