On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:32 PM, David Rosenstrauch<darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Yes, I stumbled on it when I looked into server-side filtering. The one thing I really wanted, but wich procmail didn't support was setting tags on emails as they are delivered. Dovecot has support for Sieve[1], and in version 1.2 they will have support for setting tags using it (I am currently running a slightly old RC). /M [1]: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
