Thanks guys for all that brainstorming! Right now I don't have the time to set up a separate mail server which is mostly because I'm not in town at the moment, but I'll look into this as soon as I'm back and have a weekend off.
Cheers, Nico On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Kaz Kylheku <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
