I need to access my mail boxes from two desktops on a local network, windows and CentOS.
Ideas of what would be most appropriate are received with thanks? Maybe set up an nfs export on the CentOS server?
Thanks Kai
dnk wrote:
kai wrote:
I need to access my mail boxes from two desktops on a local network, windows and CentOS.
Why not use soemthign like thunderbird and connect to the mail server with the imap protocol? Maybe i am missing something here.
Thank you for answering.
No you don't miss anything, I really don't now, but I've had some bad experience when switching from established smtp to imap, and mails where lost.
I want my mail boxes to be on 1 place and not deleted when loaded and synchronised, additionally where I can easily back up.
I was thinking to use fetchmail or similar, I think it can collect several smtp account to one user, but I haven't set that up before and also I think it collects everything in to one inbox, correct me if I am wrong.
It would be very interesting to her what others do when they have multiply smtp accounts and multiple access are needed.
Thanks Kai
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 20:05 +0200, kai wrote:
I need to access my mail boxes from two desktops on a local network, windows and CentOS.
Why not use soemthign like thunderbird and connect to the mail server with the imap protocol? Maybe i am missing something here.
Thank you for answering.
No you don't miss anything, I really don't now, but I've had some bad experience when switching from established smtp to imap, and mails where lost.
SMTP is for sending, imap is for reading, and is designed to allow access from multiple clients. Perhaps you mean switching from pop to imap.
I want my mail boxes to be on 1 place and not deleted when loaded and synchronised, additionally where I can easily back up.
That's what imap does.
I was thinking to use fetchmail or similar, I think it can collect several smtp account to one user, but I haven't set that up before and also I think it collects everything in to one inbox, correct me if I am wrong.
If some of the accounts allow pop but not imap, you can use fetchmail to collect them on a server that does have imap. Or set up forwarding to the imap server.
It would be very interesting to her what others do when they have multiply smtp accounts and multiple access are needed.
IMAP is the best approach.
On 9/5/06, kai centos@sandsengen.com wrote:
I need to access my mail boxes from two desktops on a local network, windows and CentOS.
I use Squirrelmail. If you're not sure how you will like imap make a second account and have all mail sent to the new account as well so you will have a backup of your original mail.
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