well 1. you may have many client machines (even two is enough to be a pain), so you don't want pop mail, because u end up with half your email on machine a and half on machine b. imap solves this. isp's in general do not do imap. ergo do it yourself.
2. if you have dialup you can regularly dialup and send/receive mail, under programmatic control on the linux server. 3. you have a number of dialup accounts with different isp's and don't want to keep changing the smtp server setting in your email client, you just set it to the linux box and let it bypass the isp's smtp server. 4. you like taking control 5. you want to learn how. On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:24:01 +1300 (NZDT) Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
