Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 21 April 2008 17:35:03 Gene Poole wrote: >> Group, >> >> 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? >> > Another variation - I see others have given you some ideas. > > My scheme is fetchmail > procmail with bogofilter embedded (to sort into > folders) > dovecot for the imap server > kmail (occasionally thunderbird) > to read mail. > > Fetchmail needs details of all your accounts and passwords. > > Postfix handles transport - I have it set to send internal mail without > going > out to the external addresses, and also to handle the smtp. All these are > set up on the server box. On the client box you point kmail or your > preferred reader to the server for both read and send. > > There's plenty of info on the web - if anything, too much. The dovecot > wiki > is good. Many of us use a similar setup, so we can always help with any > details you don't understand. > HTH > This is similar to what I use, except I like the GUI in kmail for filtering into mailboxes, so I use my kmail client to do this. On my server, I use maildrop to deliver the mail (instead of procmail), because it's easy to run through spamassassin on the way. (I'm sure you could use procmail for this, but I find it's syntax annoying). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
