[arch-general] Which MTA to use to store mails?

[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
> 
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