[TriLUG] E-mail questions

[Jon Carnes]

Depending on just how successful Tanner is this weekend, you might just want 
to forward your mail to the stonesoup.trilug.org server and use imap to 
access your mail from anywhere and any machine.

Failing that, you should simply download the mail to your local desktop box 
and use imap to view the mail from both the local desktop and from the 
laptop.  The advantage of IMAP is that all your reading/deleting/filing of 
mail are consistant across multiple machines that you use for reading your 
mail.  
Read a peice of mail once on your laptop and file it in a mail folder.  Go to 
your desktop and you'll find that peice of mail marked as read, and filed in 
the apropiate folder.  IMAP is a wonderful thing. 

The easiest IMAP to install is the U-W version (which RedHat uses for pop as 
well).  This particular version doesn't like to mix mail and folders, but 
that's a minor restriction.  A harder restriction is that you have to 
manually create mail folders from the command line (you can't do it from 
within Kmail)

To install this version of IMAP, install the IMAP rpm and then enable pop 
and/or imap in /etc/xinet.d/imap

You are done and ready to use imap.

Jon
 --- Original Message: Sunday 14 April 2002 04:02 pm ---
> OK, I have a bundle of questions that I have been trying to answer on my
> own, but haven't been having much luck with.
>
> Let me give you my setup...
>
> 4 computers...
>
> 1 - Firewall...
> 2 - Desktop computers, one using Linux, the other Windows ME.  The Linux
> box is my 'main' computer.
> 1 - laptop.  This is my computer away from home, and for when I want to sit
> outside and browse the 'net.
>
> desktops are running Redhat 7.2, while the laptop is 7.2.92 (whatever)
>
> Currently I am using Kmail to read my e-mail from both linux computers.  My
> laptop is set to download without deleting from the server... while the
> desktop is set to delete from the server.
>
> My question...
>
> I'm trying to move to a fetchmail/sendmail-or-whatever/procmail setup,
> where the desktop uses fetchmail to get the e-mail and does verious things
> to it... However, this seems to break the utility of the laptop.  (As I
> want to run fecthmail all the time...)  Should I use a POP/IMAP server to
> allow the laptop access?  Can I punch that through the firewall without too
> much security issues?  Should I use the firewall as my mail server?  If I
> wanted to setup my own mail domain, should I use sendmail or smail or
> something else?
>
> I've been looking at the documentation for sendmail, and I think I've
> decided that I don't want to touch that if possible.  :)
>
> Anyway, if you could reply with good resources, or even descriptions of
> what you are doing to handle e-mail, it would be appreciated.
>
> I haven't really touched on the whole e-mail processing part of linux, just
> been playing with the other network aspects of it.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> CJK
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