On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:35 -0400, 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? ---- sure... the first thing you need to do is to designate one machine as your 'mail server'. This machine needs to have: - smtp/mta software such as postfix or sendmail probably also needs to use a 'smarthost' mechanism for outbound mail - imap server such as dovecot or cyrus-imapd - fetchmail to get mail from the various accounts - I would probably toss in something like amavisd-new or MailScanner, to integrate spamassassin and clamav scanning of incoming e-mail. The process for retrieving e-mail is: fetchmail retrieves e-mail from various accounts. This email is passed to your MTA (scanned by spamassassin/clamav) and delivered to the user account (your imap server handles end delivery) The process for using e-mail is to have your mail clients (thunderbird/kmail/evolution/whatever else) to get mail via IMAP. IMAP has folders but the e-mail all stays on the 'mail server'. IMAP also keeps track of attributes such as 'Seen/Replied To' etc. via IMAP 'flags' so that if you have read the e-mail on one computer, it shows up as read in any other computer. Outbound mail would also use this 'mail server' for sending e-mail which would then relay through your 'smarthost'. You might ultimately want to consider using a Web based e-mail package to read your e-mail when you are not home too. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
