On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:25:04 +1300 Jim Cheetham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Stephen Irons > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am busy setting up an automatic mail retrieval system at home. It will > > collect email from a number of different remote POP mailboxes and deliver it > > to the appropriate local users. > > Well, that's three different jobs being done there -- one is to > collect the mail with POP (which is easy), one is to identify the > correct user to deliver to (not especially easy, depending on > circumstances), and the third is to deliver the mail to local storage. > > I'd leave the last job, Mail Delivery, to a specialist MDA tool, such > as a proper mail server like postfix. Run it so it's listening only to > localhost, and tell getmail to submit the messages it has collected > over SMTP to your local postfix. Technically it's a Local Delivery Agent ( LDA ) tool, not MDA (: I just use procmail... it's so simple. > > Then, as the others have said, don't ask postfix to use mbox, use > maildir and put a IMAP server like dovecot in front of it all. > > If you were doing this for a single user, you'd probably just teach > the front-end mail system (thunderbird, whatever) to collect from > multiple accounts in the first place; so given that you're increasing > your system complexity with getmail, go and do a proper job and > install postfix + dovecot. > > -jim I've now got to the stage where I only offer IMAP(+S) and web based access to my mail servers unless forced. OK it's more of a headache for the owner of the store to manage and secure, but the ability to read all my mail wherever I am outweighs that 100 fold imo. You could always install your own mail server, and get it delivered directly ( this might've been what Jim meant in his last comment ). But then you've got the added fun of spam filtering and malware detection... if you've got the interest, then it's worthwhile. For me, the acid test is being able to deliver mail reliably to an xtra address: once that works you know you've cracked it! Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]>
