hello,
i was thinking of using postfix for a mail server, the question is can i use this just for in bound email only and have my clients access this server locally. the clients would be outlook. I want this to check certain email accounts i have and download them to the postfix mail server. The reason i would think about doing this is my wife and i need to access both of these accounts and i do not want to keep them on the email account. is this feasable and secure?
thanks
Steven
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Steven Vishoot wrote:
hello,
i was thinking of using postfix for a mail server, the question is can i use this just for in bound email
Yes, use your isp's mail server for outbound mail.
only and have my clients access this server locally. the clients would be outlook. I want this to check certain email accounts i have and download them to the postfix mail server. The reason i would think about doing this is my wife and i need to access both of these accounts and i do not want to keep them on the email account. is this feasable and secure?
I do not understand what you are really trying to accomplish but one thing to keep in mind is that you will need a pop3/imap server inorder to have outlook retreive tha mail. AFAIK outlook cannot reveive mail directly.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com
Tom Diehl wrote on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:55:58 -0400 (EDT):
I do not understand what you are really trying to accomplish
I was trying hard at that as well ;-) I think what he really wants is get mail from his ISP to his local machine and then read it there via Outlook, but not get it directly with Outlook. Steven, you cannot use an MTA like Postfix for this unless your ISP queues your mail. You use fetchmail (or another program which does the same, I don't know if it is included with CentOS) to get the mail via POP from the ISP to your local machine, then you get it from your local machine with the client via POP or IMAP (use dovecot) as already explained.
Kai
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