From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 23:40:55 2008 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 606DB16A401 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:40:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwan@rail.eu.org) Received: from postfix2-g20.free.fr (postfix2-g20.free.fr [212.27.60.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E736313C465 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:40:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwan@rail.eu.org) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by postfix2-g20.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3B622398EC6 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:20:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE263EA0CF for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:21:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from depot.rail.eu.org (bievres.rail.eu.org [82.227.34.188]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1FCC3EA0AC for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:21:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from depot.rail.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by depot.rail.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E6081BC3A for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:21:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from ratagaz.depot.rail.eu.org (radio.depot.rail.eu.org [10.0.0.254]) by depot.rail.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E5BF281BC03 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:20:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by ratagaz.depot.rail.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id 9A6DDA8C15D; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:20:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:20:59 +0100 From: Erwan David To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080221232059.GB305@rail.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4769770500B2FB0C@n064.sc1.he.tucows.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4769770500B2FB0C@n064.sc1.he.tucows.com> X-Republicain: 3 =?iso-8859-1?Q?vent=F4s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?e?= an CCXVI (Violier) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Subject: Re: POP3 recommendations... 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, 21 Feb 2008 23:40:55 -0000 Le Thu 21/02/2008, Peter Harrison disait > I've not run a POP3 server before, but now I'm getting tired of confusing myself pulling my email down from my ISP across my laptop, desktop, and home server. Could someone recommend a solution for me? > > The situation is that I have a home server (running NFS, Samba, FTP, Apache, Mysql), plus a desktop and laptop (which generally gets used just around the house). The desktop and laptop both run fetchmail to collect my email from my ISP - but obviously this means some of my email ends up on the laptop, and some on the desktop. > > I'm after something like using fetchmail on the server to collect the mail, then probably sort it with procmail before making it available to my home network. The aim is for the mail to remain on the home server - Ie. In one central location on my network. > > Any recommendations for a POP3 server that would fit into a home network and make this easy to understand for the newbie? > > Thanks for your help. I'd rather use an IMAP server on the central server : imap is made for keeping the mailboxes centrally and consulting them remotely. Thus your mail stays on the servers, but you can treat it from your laptop as well. I have a similar setting, with courier imap, and procmail delivering to the underlying maildir. But when I find time I'll investigate maildrop as mail delivery agent with filtering capabilities. -- Erwan