Gene Poole wrote:
> I've got a small network of computers at home and over time I've
> accumulated several email addresses (actually 8 email addresses). I
> would like to automate getting all of the mail from these various
> locations and place them on my server running Fedora 8 and use it as
> my 'consolidated' mail server. I would then like to read my mail
> from any of the machines without downloading the mail to that
> machine (in other words leave the mail on my 'consolidated' mail
> server). Does anyone know of a way to do this? Can this be done?
This is quite possible. You'll need an account on the Fedora server
box (which you most likely have already). You'll want to setup an MTA
(mail transfer agent), like sendmail or postfix. Sendmail is
installed by default and for your initial purposes may not need much
tweaking at all.
To get the mail from your various accounts, using either fetchmail or
getmail (both are packaged for fedora). You run them on the server
and have them deliver the mail they collect to your local account's
mailbox.
Next, install an imap server. I like dovecot for this. The dovecot
website has a nice wiki with plenty of examples for how to configure
it to do the basic things as well as more exotic stuff.
You probably need to open up the imap port on the server to allow the
other boxes on the LAN to access it. Port 143 is standard imap, 993
is imap over ssl.
Then you can access your mail from any mail client on any machine on
the LAN and you'll always see the same mail.
(FWIW, I use mutt as my mail client and instead of using imap, I
simply ssh to the mail server box to read my mail from a terminal.
But I've setup imap for use by others who have some strange preference
for graphical mail clients. :)
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