Speed(your client isnt tied up with trying to download 86 emails when you get home if they're collected every 30 minutes), avaliability(the ISP pop server can crash all it likes, your email server can store and send them later), backups(the "Opps I didnt really mean to send that" factor...), simplicity(one email/fetchmail setup can collect mail from all 5 email addresses, at one time, every half hour, as well as dump from 5 email addresses all in one swish maneuver), Learning Curve (If you've never administered/set up an email server, a Home Server is a good place to start, make mistake, restart, make HUGE mistake, restart, make mistake (you get the picture))...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 11:24 AM Subject: Email server for Home Network - why? > Apologies to those who consider this a dumb question....... > > I can think of two reasons why one would set up an email server at home. > > 1/ Mail is readily "served" to workstations from an always on server > 2/ Mail can be accessed elsewhere without using "webmail" > > Neither of these reasons are compelling enough for me but I am curious to know if others have compelling arguments. > > -- > Robert Fisher > www.fisher.net.nz > >
