On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: > I have several computers scattered about the house... > > I currently have my macbook pro gather all of the mail from my various > accounts via the Mail app. > > This makes it difficult to read the mail when I am working a machine > on another floor. > > I am currently using a mac mini as a local dns server/svn server/wiki > server... > > I am thinking about perhaps maybe upgrading to a mini running OS X Server > > Question: Does OS X Server have a way for fetching all of my mail from my > various accounts *and* let me read/respond/create mail from any > of my other machines? ( Perhaps via a browser). > > Question: Once the bullet has been bitten for the OSX Server software how > much do typical upgrades run?
fetchmail, which is included with all versions of OS X, can gather mail from other accounts. This could be injected into a mail server running on a local machine. Or you could redirect your mail to your server. You could run a local mail server that accepts all your mail (and/or fetches it) and serves it back out using IMAP (and SquirrelMail under OS X Server). Mail.app would then connect to the IMAP server. SquirrelMail allows you to access and read/compose mail using any web browser. Note: postfix (SMTP server) is included with all versions of OS X (i.e. client too.) OS X Server updates are free. Upgrades (from 10.n to 10.m) cost money. How much that is in the future is unknown. Typically you pay the full purchase price of the new software (just like you do with normal OS X) but you can buy a maintenance program from Apple that covers everything for 3 years, this normally pays for itself and then some. -d ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Shoop Computer Scientist [email protected] GoogleVoice: 1-646-402-5293 aim: iWiring twitter: @colonelmode _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
