Magnus Therning wrote:
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Well, the way I have my setup configured is that all my email - both in
and out - goes through my home server. My server uses fetchmail to grab
incoming mail from the ISP, dovecot to provide IMAP capabilities on my
server, and exim with smart host forwarding to send mail out. A bit
complicated, I know, but this way all my mail is on my home server,
not at
my ISP, automatically gets backed up, etc.
Still sounds like you don't necessarily _need_ a full-fledged SMTP
server at
home. You can configure fetchmail to use `deliver`, which comes with
dovecot,
for the local delivery, at least if you are using per-user fetchmail
configs.
Then you have to configure all your MUAs to use your ISP's SMTP. I
assume you
already have all MUAs configured to use your dovecot instance, including
saving a copy of sent emails to a folder on it.
Using a VPN is arguably easier when you need many to "tunnel" many
connections
via the same network/computer. However, if your clients have SOCKS support
then it might be worth knowing that SSH can act as a SOCKS proxy.
Note that I'm not saying you should modify your setup in any way, if it's
working and you're happy with it then why "fix" it? It's always good to
know
about the option though, right?
/M
Good to know about the dovecot deliver thing - I hadn't been aware of
that before. I'll probably just leave things the way they are for now
though. Everything's working perfectly, and there's not really anything
to be gained by changing my setup. I was just hoping for a simpler,
drop-in replacement for exim, but it doesn't sound like there is one.
Thanks,
DR
