Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. > Actually, I'm using DIMAP. I haven't seen any problems and I've been using this setup for a very long time now. kmail has the advantage that when you want to make a filter for a maillist, it autodetects the settings you want. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
