"Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have accounts on several servers at my hosting service. I normally > read my mail via ssh and elm. I would like to download my mail via POP > and read it off a server in my house using IMAP. > > Is it possible to do what I want, and can you tell me the basics of what > I will need to do? I've never set up a mail server of any sort. > > I would like to fetch the POP mail via an SSH tunnel. The usernames for > the different accounts are in general different from any of the > usernames I use on my local machines. It would probably be best to > recieve mail on my own machine, but I don't have a static IP address - > so I have to let the hosting service get my mail and use pop to retrieve > it.
I don't know anything about SSH tunneling. However, fetchmail is typically what one uses to fetch mail from a POP3 account and feed it to the local machine's MDA. The fetchmailconf package provides a somewhat sane GUI for configuring fetchmail. Setting up an IMAP server is about as simple as 'apt-get install $IMAPD'. For $IMAPD, I prefer courier-imap-ssl for maildir and ssl support, though uw-imapd is probably the simplest to setup since it uses standard mbox by default. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
