On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Jacob G Podipara <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Girish; > 1. I guess I am a bit confused. I would not like to use gmail. I would > like to pull mail for all users > at a desktop and then distribute it to the respective users. An exercise > in having a fast and > effective way of using, distributing and re-sending mail. Would like the > users to > Use mutt or similar text based e-mail client with vim as a text based > editor dealing with just mail. > Presume one requires > (a) A static IP. > (b) Exim+mutt+Dovecot/postfix dusly configured. > Public Static IP is not needed. I'm assuming all users use the same desktop. If so, dovecot (IMAP/POP) is not needed. it is needed only when the desktop picking up mail is a mail server for the other PCs at your home. If everyone is using the same desktop, then Postfix will deliver mail to their home directories. Mutt that each of them use will pick their respective mailbags from their home directories. Exim and Postfix are both MTAs. Only one of them will be needed. One member had mentioned fetchmail multidrop earlier. You can use that to pick up mail from a single aggregated(called catch-all) mail bag on the internet to distribute mails to users on the system running the MTA. To deliver mail out, you can use the SMTP smarthost facility in the MTA to forward all mails to another SMTP host assuming it allows you. I'm not sure if gmail allows smtp relaying or would work. You'll need to experiment. 2. This is where my raeding and warped logic got me, hence explored dyn dns > and in the end gave up. > Wanted to link it to a text based messenger service finally. > I do not understand the text messenger linking. Is it due to dynamic dns? > 3. Why all this? A moot point, feel the GUI is not an accurate medium of > usage and encourages > generality, limited attention span etc... > -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
