On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 07:13 -0700, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > I just got a question froma friend who is running > FC5 on his home network plus other machines. > He wants to set up his own imap mail server on the > FC5 machine. This server would pull in mail from > another mail server using POP. My understanding > is that the mail servers normally use SMTP to > pull in their mail. Has anyone seen this sort > of setup. > > The purpose of this exercise is that his kids jump > around from one computer to another and this tends > to spread out the email across multiple machines. > I suspect some of the machines are running windows. > Using iMAP, the mail can just reside on the local > server. > > Thanks for any pointers. ---- this isn't uncommon and I do exactly that at my house. I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail from other server(s) I use MailScanner to wrapper MailScanner and clamav inspection of incoming mail I use Postfix as the SMTP (fetchmail hands the mail off to SMTP) I use cyrus-imapd as the local server for IMAP connections (though some say that dovecot is easier) Once that is all set up, all mail can be retrieved from any computer using a mail client program set to use the IMAP account on the local server. I also use horde/imp etc. for web based mail/calendaring/address books, etc. which can also be shared among the users which would be a great option for a family setup. Craig
