Network solutions

[Rick_Thomas]

I'm doing exactly what you want to accomplish.  Here's how I do it:

I have a machine running YellowDog 3.0.1, but a Fedora or Red Hat server
would do as well.

My machine runs "fetchmail" every so often from a cron job.  This
contacts the various POP3 servers of my email ISPs (in my case, AT&T
Worldnet, my Cable company, and my YDL/Enhanced account, but most of the
free email services like Gmail, Yahoo, etc run a POP3 service.). 
Fetchmail then feeds the incoming mail items to sendmail on the same
server host.  I then use procmail for the fine-tuning work of sorting
things into various folders.

To read my mail, I run the imapd server, again on the same host as
above.

Various readers, such as Evolution and Mozilla (and even Outlook Express
on Windows!) can be configured to use imap to read mail.

This has the advantage that all my mail comes to one place and I can
read my mail from anywhere I happen to be at the time.

Hope this helps!

Rick

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 20:24, GDB-B&W-YDL wrote:
> I've been trying to come up with ways to split my email to the various 
> lists I'm on for several different OS'es and hardware platforms.  I 
> toyed with using different email services to provide several alias email 
> addresses to facilitate this, but it's not working out so well.  The 
> free services are not very dependable and who are you going to complain 
> to about something that is free!  So now I'm looking at a network 
> solution where I can run an email server on one central machine and have 
> the mail which goes to the other various machines on my network 
> distributed to their proper locations.  The machine I use for my 
> file/print server (Wintel) would be the logical choice, but I am open to 
> other possibilities in the Mac or Linux world.  So I would love to hear 
> from some of you network gurus on how best to accomplish this goal.