On Jun 19, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote:
Ok, this is what I'm thinking about trying, and mainly justto see if I can do it. I've got a total of 3 linux machines here, and I was thinking about setting one of them up as an email server. Now, I'm not talking about setting the machine up so that all I run on it is an email client like thunderbird, or evolution and retrieve email from my email account at bellsouth. What I want to try and do is set the machine up so that my machine is the email server, and I retrieve my email from it. Is what I'm thinking about even possible, or am I just simply having a case of too much oxygen on the brain? If what I'm thinking about is possible, how would I go about doing it?
since you already have a perfectly good email account at bellsouth, unless you want to host email service for your own domain, a full- fledged mail server is probably overkill. i suspect that what you want is fetchmail:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
you configure it with the login information for your bellsouth email account and run it as a daemon on one of your CentOS boxes; you then run an IMAP service (dovecot, i believe, is the server you'd be using) on the CentOS box to serve your mail to your local network.
you'd need some sort of solution for outgoing mail - if you can use bellsouth's smtp server for outgoing mail, that would be the simplest.
here's a HOWTO that may be useful:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/fetchmail.html
-steve
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