Re: [Linux-users] email server; of sorts

2015-08-13 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: I'm looking for a server software, but not even sure how to call it - Not a single piece of software, but a group of multiple other components to do the mail collection. I'll assume that your current email

Re: [Linux-users] Happy Birthday

2015-08-13 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 13 Aug 2015 18:54:25 NZST +1200, criggie wrote: 40 GB PATA IDE drive, running root in my mythtv server, has just passed its 100,000 hours mark. That's 11.5 years of continuous service now. Nifty! All my similar drives have failed, including Seagate Barracuda ones. Volker -- Volker

Re: [Linux-users] email server; of sorts

2015-08-13 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Fri 14 Aug 2015 09:25:13 NZST +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: [...] If this can be achieved with postfix/dovecot No way, but thay can be part of the solution. You are asking about incoming emails on different servers, and outgoing emails via different servers. It seems pretty obvious that

[Linux-users] email server; of sorts

2015-08-13 Thread Adrian Mageanu
Hi, I'm looking for a server software, but not even sure how to call it - I'm tempted to say email proxy, but that's something else - so here is what I need/want. The scenario is that I have multiple personal email accounts on multiple servers, on some servers more than one email account per

Re: [Linux-users] email server; of sorts

2015-08-13 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: Errr, scratch that, I found they invented google. Sure, but if you don't know the right words to use to describe your problem, you won't be able to find the best technical detail :-) -jim

Re: [Linux-users] setting the root password

2015-08-13 Thread Davin Pearson
Thanx for your help. Everything is now working fine for me. On 9 August 2015 at 17:48, Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz wrote: Run the following command in a terminal; sudo passwd -aS Read the man page for passwd especially the section explaining the section explaining the output of the

Re: [Linux-users] email server; of sorts

2015-08-13 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: Yes, I wasn't too clear on the sending part. This server software or setup I'm looking for, when replying to a message it should use the original email account on the original server where the original message

Re: [Linux-users] email server; of sorts

2015-08-13 Thread Adrian Mageanu
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 09:43 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: You might find it easier to move all your mailboxes to a single server. Easier organisation, single point of failure. You might find procmail and rsync very useful too. I thought of that, even considered rsync-ing periodically the a

Re: [Linux-users] email server; of sorts

2015-08-13 Thread Adrian Mageanu
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 15:13 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 11:49 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Adrian Mageanu adrian.mage...@totalimex.com wrote: Can you do that with postfix? I mean using multiple relay servers? If yes, can you give me