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On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 10:33 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > Ok, so I am now setting up a mail server for myself. What I want to be able to do > is this: > + Download my emails to my mail server from my ISP(s) using POP3. Fetchmail is the business for this, assuming you continue to want to use POP3. If you start to want to use IMAP4 then Fetchmail is still the biz. poll my.isp.net with protocol auto grant there is grant here poll my.isp.net with protocol auto SO there is SO here etc > + Send emails from my "client" machines to my mail server using SMTP. If using Postfix, as I do, then if you wnat to do that (SMTP Relay) then you will set your ISP's mailserver (eg smtp.myisp.net or post9364.bigisp.net ) as the relayhost. There is something about relayhost and smarthost that I have not fully appreciated... > + Outgoing emails to be sent from -at-thymox.co.uk. > I do not know whether it would be best to forward these using SMTP to my ISP(s) or > not or what. If you have a permanent IP address, and the world can see it in a DNS outside, then you may as well send by SMTP Direct, if not, I think much of the world will bounce you as unvouched for. THis is arguably incorrect behaviour (although I defer to almost everyone who does it for a living on that part...) but is done for self defence. > + Be able to connect to my mail server from my "client" machines using IMAP. Dovecot. Just Works. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html