On Monday 21 April 2008 19:00:17 Neal Becker wrote: > 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. > KMail filtering is fine for local mail, but there are real problems with imap mail. It is not recommended to do that. > 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). As always, it's a matter of preference. I have a huge number of filters to handle a huge number of folders. Procmail suits me well. When I discovered that bogofilter would work embedded in it my joy was complete :-) Anne
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