Robin, I'd like to try to help. The sketches at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/TestSketch may be of some help to get a general understanding of how email works in, for example, a LAN -- I'm in the process of setting up (learning how) my own email server for very similar purposes. I am in the process of developing more. (Those sketches have been "vetted" by at least one person who has a better handle on how email works, but there may be some errors or ambiguity.)
Part of the key is fetchmail (or getmail) which can be set up to fetch mail from one or more popservers and bring it to your email server. You may need a separate fetchmail task for each pop3 server -- I really don't know yet. Also, you can include fetchmail in a cron job to run it periodically automatically. My next step is to study up on postfix and then develop a block diagram for postfix. If you (or anybody else) has comments on the sketches (or anything else) feel free to write to me or register and edit the page yourself. I'd prefer to edit the drawings myself, for the time being -- I'm trying to strike a balance between simplicity and totally complete and accurate detail, and maintain a similar style across all the sketches. (Someone has edited the first sketch and made some style changes (font sizes) inconsistent with the other sketches.) Randy Kramer Robin wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am having a bit of mail problem but don't know where to start. I want > to set up a mail server which supports pop, imap and webmail, and I also > need to collect mail from other mail server. > > Here comes the detail. I have 3 machines here, 1 running Win2k, 2 > running mdk 8.1. One of the mdk machine is a dedicated server, the other > 2 are my workstations. The server will have a sub domain with dns2go.com > so I can host my own mail server. The reason for using imap is simply > that I don't have to download all my mail to all my workstations. To > make the problem even harder, I also have email accounts with my ISP and > Yahoo. I am hoping that it can be setup so the mail server would fetch > my mail from other mail server and put them in the same place with other > mail received by my own mail server. > > To sum it up, in case you were confused by the last section, I hope to > setup a mail server, which will host mail for local domain and fetch > mail from other pop3 server and put everything in one place so I can > access all mail from any other workstation using IMAP. Webmail is for > accessing mail from outside network. > > I did some search, seems horde could solve some of the problem. I am > also hoping address book would stay on the server so when I move from > machine to machine, I don't have to re enter them. > > Any help is greatly appreciated > > Robin > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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