I second IMAP & GMail. However, if you want to set-up your own feature rich e-mail server, you could always try Zimbra<http://www.zimbra.com/products/product_editions.html>and configure it to pull your mail via POP like Stan suggested. Then you have a local web-based e-mail that you and your wife can log into simultaneously. Of course if you are just looking for a solution to your problem, I would not re-invent the wheel and create my own e-mail server. GMail does it all without any trouble.
John On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]>wrote: > I second the switch to IMAP -- and also possibly consider switching to > GMail (or Gmail for Domains). I do the same thing you speak of -- except > when I use an unconfigured machine I just use Googles beautiful webmail. My > Blackberry works with their native client. I routinely have a desktop, > laptop, cell phone, and work computer logged into the GMail account. > > GMail can also pull mail via POP from GMAVT.net if you wish to retain your > gpbrown address! > > Stan > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Josh Sled <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Gary Brown <[email protected]> writes: >> > The main purpose for this is so that my wife and I can share one >> email >> > (pop) account and message repository (Inbox, Sent, etc...) from >> different >> > user accounts on the same computer. Any additional functionality would >> be >> > great. >> >> Switch to IMAP … it's almost 2009, already. :) >> >> But seriously, switch to IMAP. Have an IMAP server where all email is >> stored, and connect from multiple/various clients (thunderbird, >> squirrelmail (web based), blackberry service, outlook, &c.). Pull email >> From your ISP via fetchmail (via either POP or IMAP). >> >> I've done this for a long time. fetchmail pulls my mail via imap(s) >> From dreamhost every five minutes. Local delivery goes through procmail >> to sort into maildir folders in my homedir. courier-imap is setup to >> serve those folders directly. I primarily connect via Gnus (in emacs), >> but have used thunderbird (when on the laptop), squirrelmail (when >> traveling) and mutt (when gnus is misbehaving). >> >> -- >> ...jsled >> http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b} >> > >
