Am 03.07.2018 um 19:37 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld: > Am 03.07.2018 um 16:00 schrieb Dan Haworth: >> On 03/07/18 14:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: >>> - I've got some Email/IMAP account. >>> - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. >>> - I've got too many Emails on the host. >>> - I don't want to loose any of the emails. >>> - So I will have to install my own mail server, >>> fetching all my emails from the host. >>> - The mail server will then have to interact with >>> my providers server like a client, working as a server for me. >>> >>> I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one >>> - works as expected, >>> - and is easy to configure. >>> >>> Any help appreciated. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Peter >> Hey Peter, >> >> Personally I have always been happy with exim and dovecot for local >> mail servers. Regarding downloading your mail from your remote >> provider regularly, I would personally use fetchmail for that - it >> sounds exactly what you're looking for >> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/). >> >> Hope that helps, >> >> Dan >> > Hello Dan, > > seems I need a certificate for dovecot including my server's name, but I > don't have a fixed IP nor a DNS name. > > Regards, > Peter Hi Peter, in the mail ecosystem a self-signed certificate is just doing well enough, the alternative to a failed certificate chain verification is plaintext anyways. Gruß Georg
