On 4/14/06, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <stymar@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. mails can get to servers on the Internet either via smtp or via pop. I have setup a machine which has a public IP and mails get directed to the machine via smtp via the mx record on the dns. Another way I have done this is with a machine that does not have a public IP by popping the mails from a mail box then distributing it to users on my box. This I implemented using fetchmail... Depending on your setup you could use any of the two.. > > 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. You could also install squirrel mail and imap to give people access on other computers, but this would work with a webserver... > > Thanks for any pointers. > > Robert E. Styma > Principal Engineer (DMTS) > Lucent Technologies, Phoenix > Email: stymar@xxxxxxxxxx / styma@xxxxxxxxxx > Phone: 623-582-7323 Cell: 602-478-0114 > Company: http://www.lucent.com > Personal: http://www.styma.org > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
