<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/26 Gene Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gene.poole@macys.com">gene.poole@macys.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I'm running Fedora 8 on a AMD X2 5600+
with 4-Gig RAM. I'm also running Oracle 11g along with some other
stuff (Apache, JBoss, etc.). This machine is what I like to call
my server on a LAN with 5 other machines. Over time I've gotten at least
6 mail addresses and I would like to consolidate them into one place. What
I would like to do is the following:</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Run a mail server by which myself and
the other members of my family can access their mail each it it's own mail
box.</font>
<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Run fetchmail which would read all of
our mail accounts in various locations and then populate the above mail
servers input.</font>
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">I've written and tested a script running
fetchmail doing a 'check' to determine if it in fact can access out multiple
mail accounts. It appears to work from cron and would pull the mail
if I changed the parameters. I want to leave the mail on my local server
so that I can read my mail from any one of the 6 machines. The questions
that come to mind are:</font>
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<ol>
<li value="1"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Where can I find instructions
to bring up a mail server?</font></li></ol></blockquote><div>You distro should be the first place to look. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</li><li value="2"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Which mail server is best (ease
of use, easy to maintain)?</font></li></ol></blockquote><div>Religious question. Sendmail, qmail, postfix all work. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</li><li value="3"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Will fetchmail populate the
input of the mail server or do I need to run sendmail?</font></li></ol></blockquote><div>Fetchmail an be the "feeder" to an smtp service like sendmail. I think it can also be a feeder to local mail files. <br></div>
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</li><li value="4"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">If sendmail is required, where
do I find instructions on configuration?</font></li></ol></blockquote><div>Sendmail is best set up using the distro setup from an install followed by site tweaks (hostnames, etc.) There are books on all of the servers and it is mostly a black art. Be prepared to sign documents in blood. <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><ol><li value="4"><font size="2" face="sans-serif"></font>
</li><li value="5"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Would this need a back-end database?
And if so, would Oracle work? </font></li></ol></blockquote><div>No database required. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">TIA for your thoughts and consideration,<br><font color="#888888">
Gene Poole<br>
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