Mail Server Question

[Gbenga Shobowale]

On 4/14/06, Styma, Robert E (Robert) <stymar at lucent.com> wrote:
> I just got a question froma friend who is running
> FC5 on his home network plus other machines.
> He wants to set up his own imap mail server on the
> FC5 machine.  This server would pull in mail from
> another mail server using POP.  My understanding
> is that the mail servers normally use SMTP to
> pull in their mail.  Has anyone seen this sort
> of setup.

mails can get to servers on the Internet either via smtp or via pop. I
have setup a machine which has a public IP and mails get directed to
the machine via smtp via the mx record on the dns.

Another way I have done this is with a machine that does not have a
public IP by popping the mails from a mail box then distributing it to
users on my box. This I implemented using fetchmail...
Depending on your setup you could use any of the two..



>
> The purpose of this exercise is that his kids jump
> around from one computer to another and this tends
> to spread out the email across multiple machines.
> I suspect some of the machines are running windows.
> Using iMAP, the mail can just reside on the local
> server.
You could also install squirrel mail and imap to give people access on
other computers, but this would work with a webserver...


>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Robert E. Styma
> Principal Engineer (DMTS)
> Lucent Technologies, Phoenix
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