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

[Georg]

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