Newbie

[Guido Leisker]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:07 -0500, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:04 +0100, Guido Leisker wrote:
>>
>>>Solomon wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>I have installed Fedora 4 on my desktop computer and the installation
>>>>went well.  I haven't set it up as a server, so now I can only
>>>>send/receive my pop email only on my desktop.  I want to be able to
>>>>send/receive on my laptop.  My question is how do I accomplish that?
>>>>Solomon
>>>
>>>Thats not so easy,
>>>look if IMAP is what you need.
>>>
>>
>>Indeed.  Though, some ISPs do not support IMAP.
>>
>>I'd ask your ISP if they support IMAP access.
> 
> 
> I set up a used junk PC I bought real cheap as my own imap server.
> It uses fetchmail to pop my pop accounts - and procmail to filter into
> folders. In addition to my mail clients, I also use squirrelmail to read
> (though not send).
> 
> That way I don't need to use imap facilities of my ISP, my accounts are
> all pop.
> 
> I do use my ISP's smtp server though.
> 

I have tried squirrelmail too. But i found no way to tell the programm 
to auth at the smtp-server of my provider!

You use you own Server? Thats a bit tricky i think, you need own dns 
entries and so on. Thats all a bit to much for newbies (like newbie and me)