Re: Linux Box As Local News/Mail Server

On 2006-02-03, Jeff Gaines <jgaines_newsid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Now that I have this laptop working I fancy going another step and setting
up a spare machine as a Linux server to use on a home network.

I have leafnode on the laptop so I can play with news readers and because
fetching articles one by one over a wireless network can be a bit hit and
miss. Having something that runs every 15 minutes on a laptop is a bit daft
though since when I'm not physically using it then it's asleep.
So I could set up a spare box with Debian and run leafnode on it to feed the
Linux laptop and also the Windows laptop.

Is there something as simple as leafnode for mail? I looked at fetchmail and
while it seems it could go and get my email it says it then pushes it out
by SMTP. Can it just hold on to it and let me access it with either POP3
and/or IMAP (I think that's correct - where it effectively stays on the
server?). There's also Dovecot but I've not seen much about that.

Any other to think about? I would want it to collect mail using POP3 from 4
servers and store it so I can access it from other machines.

Many thanks.

It's eminently possible.

See http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/275 for a start.
as well as http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#overview

I used this and other articles to set up an IMAP server (dovecot) on my
linux box, mainly so I could experiment with different clients, but it
also acts as a server for my work (windows) laptop running Thunderbird.

I use fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, postfix and dovecot. It takes
a bit of setting up, but you learn a whole lot about mail handling in
the process.

hth
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Jon
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