Consolidated eMail Server

[Neal Becker]

Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Monday 21 April 2008 17:35:03 Gene Poole wrote:
>> Group,
>>
>> I've got a small network of computers at home and over time I've
>> accumulated several email addresses (actually 8 email addresses).  I
>> would like to automate getting all of the mail from these various
>> locations and place them on my server running Fedora 8 and use it as my
>> 'consolidated'
>> mail server.  I would then like to read my mail from any of the machines
>> without downloading the mail to that machine (in other words leave the
>> mail
>> on my 'consolidated' mail server).  Does anyone know of a way to do this?
>> Can this be done?
>>
> Another variation - I see others have given you some ideas.
> 
> My scheme is fetchmail > procmail with bogofilter embedded (to sort into
> folders) > dovecot for the imap server > kmail (occasionally thunderbird)
> to read mail.
> 
> Fetchmail needs details of all your accounts and passwords.
> 
> Postfix handles transport - I have it set to send internal mail without
> going
> out to the external addresses, and also to handle the smtp.  All these are
> set up on the server box.  On the client box you point kmail or your
> preferred reader to the server for both read and send.
> 
> There's plenty of info on the web - if anything, too much.  The dovecot
> wiki
> is good.  Many of us use a similar setup, so we can always help with any
> details you don't understand.
> HTH
> 

This is similar to what I use, except I like the GUI in kmail for filtering
into mailboxes, so I use my kmail client to do this.

On my server, I use maildrop to deliver the mail (instead of procmail),
because it's easy to run through spamassassin on the way.  (I'm sure you
could use procmail for this, but I find it's syntax annoying).