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On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Bob Weber wrote:
> On 11/2/19 8:10 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
>> Here is the setup. We are on a private vlan as in 192.168.x.x.
All local host names are resolved via hosts files. Messages to
go to the big wide world must go through Suddenlink's SMTP
smarthost and I definitely don't want to break that.
On rare occasions, I want to forward an email to the Mac
which normally doesn't send or receive emails. What would be the
simplest way to "forward" an email from the Linux box to the
Mac's mailer?
The Mac only needs to be able to receive, not send any
email.
Thank you
Martin WB5AGZ
>>
> Why not create a user on the Linux box to receive such emails and have the
> MAC client connect to that user on the Linux box. You might have to install a
> pop server (popa3d ... easiest to install and configure) or imac server
> (dovecot-imapd ... harder to configure and probably more than you need) on
> the Linux box if one isn't installed already.
> Your MAC would have to have an email client capable of connecting to a pop or
> imac mailbox at the ip of the Linux box or host name in the hosts file
> corresponding to the Linux box.
Hi Martin,
The setup Bob describes is exactly what I use for my family. Debian linux box
running dovecot receives email from our ISP via "fetchmail" and sorts it out to
separate accounts for each family member, who then reads their mail on a Mac or
PC using the native OS gui mail-reader on their machine.
Feel free to ask me if you have any questions.
Enjoy!
Rick
