On Tue, April 5, 2005 8:00 am, Phill Coxon said: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:43 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: >> SquirrelMail, with dovecot as the IMAP back-end. Maildir is the >> "correct" storage type. Any MTA that tickles your fancy. >> >> However, if you are doing to be running fetchmail or something similar >> to snarf your POP3 mailboxes, be very careful before re-injecting them >> into your own MTA - the messages will be missing the SMTP Envelope >> data, and this can cause problems if your address is not listed on the >> To field (i.e. mailing lists &c). You might end up posting them back >> out to someone else, rather than receiving them. > > Hi Jim, > > That's a great point - I am on a number of mailing lists. > > Is there a simple way around this that you can offer? > > Thanks! > The easiest way is to get your mail delivered locally. No problem if you're on broadband - use the free functions of no-ip.org or similar. I've gone slightly upmarket and purchased a domain name that points to it. You'll have to rejoin the lists, but it's so much nicer to have your mail there at lan speeds when at home (:
Steve -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
