My ISP only lets me get my mail if I am on their network so what I did was setup fetchmail to go poll my ISP Pop email box and pull it into my Debian box sitting at home and drop it into an IMAP account then I use Kmail or the webmail program I set up to check my mail from work/friends houses etc. Since it drops it off into a local IMAP server I don't have to worry about leaving my mail behind and losing it and trying to remember where that important email that I got is, if I pulled it in at work or what, with IMAP the mail sits on the server till I delete it. Then I use my own sendmail SMTP to send mail out (my ISP has had bad problems with their SMTP server going down)
Steve Waterman wrote: >Just run kmail, let it grab the mail from your isp's server. > >For local smtp transport (to your smtp server at the isp), ssmtp is a nice, >easily configurable replacement for sendmail or exim. > >No reason to make it complicated than necessary. > > >On Thursday 19 September 2002 06:12, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>i currently use a dual boot win98/debian 3.0. Since i'm having so much fun >> >> >with debian, i am going to put my Suse 7.2 server on debian too. > > >>While i'm doing this, i would like to set up a simple mail retrieving >> >> >mechanism. > > >>I think exim will do the job fine but i want to be sure :-) >>My network is setup like this: the dualboot pc behind the suse 7.2 server >> >> >which has connection to the internet via cable. > > >>I have 2 mailboxes at my isp, 1 for me and 1 for my wife. So i would like >> >> >exim to run on my soon-to-be debian server and check the mailbox from me and >my wife at my isp's site every x minutes and store the mail locally on my >server. > > >>Then i would use Kmail (or another client) to connect to my server and get >> >> >the mail from there instead of from my isp. Of course, i don't want to >retrieve the mail from my wife. Would save me a lot of time since i'm >currently subscribed to a couple of debian mailing lists and they are quite >busy:-) > > >>When sending mail, my mail client should send it to my server which then >> >> >would take care of sending it to my isp's pop3 server. > > >>The whole setup would add an extra step: instead of email client - isp it >> >> >would be email client - local server - isp. > > >>Is a combo of kmail / exim able to do this without to much trouble? >> >>Thanks >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> >> >> > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
