[arch-general] Which MTA to use to store mails?
Hello, topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me. I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure. Any help appreciated. Kind regards Peter
Hello,
topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me.
I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure.
Any help appreciated.
Kind regards
Peter
Hi Pete, you might want to read this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OfflineIMAP Cheers Georg
Am 03.07.2018 um 15:58 schrieb Georg:
Hello,
topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me.
I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure.
Any help appreciated.
Kind regards
Peter
Hi Pete,
you might want to read this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OfflineIMAP
Cheers Georg
Thank You, Georg, I'll have a look at it. Regards Peter
On 03/07/18 14:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
Hello,
topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me.
I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure.
Any help appreciated.
Kind regards
Peter
Hey Peter, Personally I have always been happy with exim and dovecot for local mail servers. Regarding downloading your mail from your remote provider regularly, I would personally use fetchmail for that - it sounds exactly what you're looking for (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/). Hope that helps, Dan
Am 03.07.2018 um 16:00 schrieb Dan Haworth:
On 03/07/18 14:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
Hello,
topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me.
I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure.
Any help appreciated.
Kind regards
Peter
Hey Peter,
Personally I have always been happy with exim and dovecot for local mail servers. Regarding downloading your mail from your remote provider regularly, I would personally use fetchmail for that - it sounds exactly what you're looking for (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/).
Hope that helps,
Dan
Thank You, Dan - yes, better than looking through a bunch of howtos, as I'm just having problems - just waited too long ... exim seems to work with SMTP only, so I'm looking at dovecot as "my" MTA. Regards Peter
Am 03.07.2018 um 16:00 schrieb Dan Haworth:
On 03/07/18 14:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
Hello,
topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me.
I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure.
Any help appreciated.
Kind regards
Peter
Hey Peter,
Personally I have always been happy with exim and dovecot for local mail servers. Regarding downloading your mail from your remote provider regularly, I would personally use fetchmail for that - it sounds exactly what you're looking for (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/).
Hope that helps,
Dan
Hello Dan, seems I need a certificate for dovecot including my server's name, but I don't have a fixed IP nor a DNS name. Regards, Peter
Am 03.07.2018 um 19:37 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld:
Am 03.07.2018 um 16:00 schrieb Dan Haworth:
On 03/07/18 14:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
Hello,
topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me.
I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure.
Any help appreciated.
Kind regards
Peter
Hey Peter,
Personally I have always been happy with exim and dovecot for local mail servers. Regarding downloading your mail from your remote provider regularly, I would personally use fetchmail for that - it sounds exactly what you're looking for (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/).
Hope that helps,
Dan
Hello Dan,
seems I need a certificate for dovecot including my server's name, but I don't have a fixed IP nor a DNS name.
Regards, Peter
Hi Peter, in the mail ecosystem a self-signed certificate is just doing well enough, the alternative to a failed certificate chain verification is plaintext anyways. Gruß Georg
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, at 15:52, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me.
I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure.
Any help appreciated.
If you're open to *not* setting up a complete MTA, I have the following setup: isync set up in pull-only mode from my IMAP hoster excluding deletions: All folders from the remote are backed up to my local email storage, including the sent folder. The local storage is a maildir; my local MUA saves sent messages, drafts etc to the same folder hierarchy as the isync sync channel – this yields an integrated, simple mail system without much configuration and operations overhead. The email sync is triggered both via a hook in the MUA (mutt) and via a systemd --user timer (hourly).
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Dan Haworth
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Georg
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Jens John
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Peter Nabbefeld