On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:35:30 -0700, Kaz Kylheku <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:21:42 -0400, Nico Schlömer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Stan, >> >> I'm sorry that my not clarifying the background of this unsettled you >> somewhat. >> >> I'm a PhD student at the University of Antwerp >> <http://win.ua.ac.be/content/staff> and like many of my colleagues, I >> was dissatisfied with the webmail interface that the ICT would >> provide: It's old, it's buggy, and it seems unmaintained. > > One solution would be to set up a mail server in the CS department; > maybe the University IT would go for that, depending on the > rapport between them and the CS dept.
Actually this may be unnecessary. If the big university mail system supports user configurable mail forwarding and properly falls back on A records if MX records are not available for a domain, then all you need is to control some machine in the CS department (some-machine.cs.university) which is visible on the network and has a DNS A record. Set up a mail server on that machine for the domain "some-machine.cs.university", with a MTA, IMAP server, webmail, etc. Then just forward university mails to "[email protected]" or whatever its name is. Be sure to use your proper e-mail address when sending, not the @some-machine. This way you and your colleagues don't need to individually run things like imapproxy or fetchmail cron jobs, and you avoid polling the university IMAP server. _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/users/ BT/8f4f07cd
