On Saturday, October 01, 2016 05:06:07 AM mo wrote: > My network is consisting of the following systems: > > Main PC - 192.168.23.11 (Running Debian Jessie) > Server - 192.168.23.200 (Running Debian Jessie) > > The server is always online, the PC is only half of the day on. > > What i want to do now is the following: > > Sending mail from my Main PC to my Server and also the other way around, > from the Server to my Main PC. > The Server should also be able to send mail to the "outside" (Meaning to > other SMTP servers). > The second requirement is optional since i dont own a domain and all > this is sitting locally at my home. The most important thing for me is > to send and receive mail from both systems in my home network. > I hope this made my problem a little clearer :) > > I'm a little ashamed to say that, but i could not totally follow your > explanations Mark... I'm quite a newbie when it comes to SMTP.. sorry :( > > Thanks again for all your help ;)
Here is how I do something similar (I don't need to get all emails to both systems), and some other alternatives: What I do now: * On my main desktop (which I normally use to send and receive emails), I use kmail, which I consider a "Windows style" email client (because I don't know what else to call it--it sends email via SMTP and receives email via POP3--it (the PC) doesn't use anything like an MTA (e.g., postfix)) and is set to delete emails from the server). My email provider / server is Google (which I don't really like because of the insecurity, but I started using it a long time ago and haven't bothered to switch)--for really confidential emails I use encryption). On the other PC, which I use only rarely to receive or send emails, I use a browser to access my google mail account. Even though I set kmail on the other PC to delete emails from the server, google keeps them in the "all mail" file for something like 30 days. (Aside: I forget how emails sent from the second PC get to the first--I'll have to test that--they do seem to get there.) Other alternatives: * Use, for example, kmail on both PCs, but use something like rsync to keep the mail folders in sync on both PCs. * <darn--getting old is a pain--I thought of a second alternative--I'll post again if I remember... ;-) >
