On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:56:15AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > Objective: setup a spare box that downloads mail for me and my family > from various POP3 servers. DL'd mail gets scanned for spam and then is > held for eventual retrieval by users.
That looks pretty reasonable, I do something similar (though it's just for me, so it's a little simpler) - fetchmail on the main machine pulls down POP3 mail, and an IMAP server makes all my mail folders available to me in native clients on any of my 3 machines. > I'm guessing that I'll need to run either a POP3 or IMAP server on Box > 001 in order for the 3 clients - ward, wally and beaver - to be able to > retrieve their mail. Is this correct? Yes, unless you want to either have them all log in to shell sessions or set up a web-mail gateway of some type on the machine. IMAP has the advantage of letting any user access saved mail folders from any machine, at the expense of requiring that amount of disk space on the server. POP3 saves you the space, but mail is saved on the local machine so it's only accessible from that machine and must be manually transferred for a new machine or a reinstall (a serious consideration for some Windows machines). -- Michael Heironimus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
