From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 21:13:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20E6C106564A for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:13:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1F538FC17 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:13:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 4582 invoked by uid 89); 23 Apr 2009 18:26:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by 2607:f118::b6 with ESMTPA; 23 Apr 2009 18:26:41 -0000 Message-ID: <49F0B2E8.4020501@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:26:48 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederique Rijsdijk References: <49F0B1F7.9030109@isafeelin.org> In-Reply-To: <49F0B1F7.9030109@isafeelin.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Liontaur Subject: Re: mail server/webmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:13:23 -0000 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Liontaur wrote: >> Hi folks, I was searching around but i'm not quite sure what i'm looking >> for. I want to have a program that gets the mail from my ISP mail server >> (pop), stores the mail permanently, allows me webmail access, and also >> lets >> me grab the mail with a mail client (Outlook Express). I'd like to be >> able >> to sync the mail with outlook express also. Like if I send a mail over >> webmail, that sent mail will also go into the sent box in outlook >> express, >> or conversly, perhaps store all the mail on the server and have outlook >> express just show the folders and contents stored on the server. But i'd >> have to somehow upload all of the mail currently in my outlook >> express. I'll >> also need some kind of spam functionality as I get a sizable amount of >> spam. >> Currently I use K9 for spam and I quite like it. > I guess you could start to look in the area of: > > - /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail (to fetch/store the mail) > - /usr/ports/mail/dovecot (for access to the mail via imap) > - /usr/ports/mail/squirremail or roundcube (webmail w/ imap) > - /usr/ports/www/apache22 for the webmail > > As you're then using IMAP, any client that connects to dovecot will get > the same set of mailfolders (sync). If one is going that far, I'd recommend: http://www.thenetworkpeople.biz/internet/mail/toaster/ I've been using them for many years, for thousands of accounts across hundreds of domains, and it just works. Steve