Re: [Sheflug] Local e-mail service

[Peter Humphrey <prh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 09:13:17 John Cooper wrote:

> You may want to check that your ISP allows incoming SMTP connections.

Yes of course. In Nildram's case, SMTP is a delivery option, so I could have 
all my mail delivered that way. I'm not sure whether I want to; if I did it 
would just be "because it's there".

> [then] setup a local imap server,

This is all getting a bit worrisome for my firewall box to have to run; 
having a local SMTP relay is quite bad enough :-(

> I use dovecot but there are other options! Then you can use kmail to
> access this mail.

All my Internet e-mail comes via Nildram, and I'm happy to continue clicking 
the button in kmail to go and get it when I'm ready - it doesn't take long 
at 2 Mb/s! The main thing I want to add is an ability to read daemon 
notices from my LAN in kmail. This means getting local mail off the 
firewall and laptop and onto the workstation. I'm looking into Postfix's 
delivery options at the moment.

> This also allows you to run a webmail server for when you are out and
> about, or allow access from your mobile assuming you are happy to open up
> some ports in your firewall!

Whoa there! I want to avoid bloat on the firewall and I don't have room for 
another server box.

> At worst you get the mail backed up on your server

That is a useful point. I assume I can set Postfix up so that it copies 
every message to a log file, which I think would be good enough.

> and laptop assuming you have offline IMAP setup. Also if [your] client
> supports it (Thunderbird does not sure about Kmail) you can use IMAP IDLE
> to get the mail "pushed" to your client as soon as it arrives.

...and we're back to SMTP land  :-)

Thanks for the ideas.

-- 
Rgds
Peter Humphrey
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