JF, Pi is usable to host an dovecot email server, but remember that SD Cards are not hard drives and tend to fail more often unless you use industrial grade ones ( do not ask how I know :) ) Or make backups on a regular basis.
For fecthing emails you should look at fetchmail, something like https://www.linode.com/docs/email/clients/using-fetchmail-to-retrieve-email. That's another thing, and I'm sure you'll find forums to help you on this. That said, don't be afraid to try. I had a dovecot runing on pi with nginx. Really easy to clone to make a small cluster for testing. Cedric 2016-10-31 11:49 GMT-04:00 jean francois pion <jean.francois.p...@free.fr>: > > hello, > > i'm quite a newbie to the mail server instalation and admin (you must > start one day !) > > > i would like to use a rapberry pi to build a system to get the mails from > different mail accounts via pop, to store them in the raspberry memory an > be able to get them with my thunderbird client on the different computers > on my local network. > > no need to accesse them via internet it is for local use only. > > the puropose is to avoid gettin my fai mail box full and loosing mails > (quite a big mail traffic ) > > no need for spamkiller i've got what i want already on the computer > > no need for an smtp relay the computer can acces the fai smtp, > > is dovecot able to do that ? > > > thank you > > sorry for the bad english > > > > -- > > -- > > JF Pion > > *Quand je suis allé à l'école, ils m'ont demandé ce que je voulais être > quand je serai grand. J'ai répondu : "Heureux"* > > Ils m’ont dit que je n’avais pas compris la question, j’ai répondu qu’ils > n’avaient pas compris la vie. > > John Lennon > > > Des montages électroniques pour le modélisme > http://jean.francois.pion.free.fr > > le site du vol électrique http://electrofly.free.fr/ > > > > --- > L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le > logiciel antivirus Avast. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus >
