> I access my email through imap, but I could just as easily use pop3 if I > liked. Both protocols work pretty much out-of-the-box. The only > complicated part was the optional addition of SSL, which prevents me > from blasting my username and password across the net in plain text. > I am still working on this. That's where I'd like to get a block of instruction.
> I use imap so I can access my email easily form anywhere and any client. > Since the imap server is on my LAN, it's very fast. > Exactly > To top it off, I installed > openwebmail which provides a very fancy web interface as a full-featured > mail client as well as allowing me full access to read/write my home > directory. > I put squirrelmail up on my web server, but I don't use it that much. It's gets more use for it's calendar function by various members of the family for coordination of activities. > Do you every get annoyed at having to change the smtp server in you mail > client when you take your laptop elsewhere? My next project is to > enable SMTP authentication so that I can send mail from anywhere in the > world through my home server, which will then relay through the > roadrunner server. > I use my own SMTP server to send, so it's accessible from anywhere. Finagling inside of postfix made this possible. > This can be done on a fairly crappy system. It runs very well currently > on a Celeron 466 with 320 mb ram, but I ran a similar setup with > slackware on a Pentium 60 with 48 mb ram! > Oh yeah. My "server" is a Pentium II 300 MHz with 128MB of RAM. Not too fast, but competent. Matt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
