Mail server question

[James]

Hello Richard,

I'm not quite sure if the following suggestion will provide you with what
you require as you did not specify whether these mailboxes are for multiple
users (or just yourself) and if there will be a need for further independent
retrieval.

Anyhow... Have a look at getmail (it is available via ports).

I've not used it myself but it looks pretty extensible and is based upon
fetchmail which I used quite a bit in the past.

You could then set up a POP daemon on your retrieval server and collect mail
using your usual mail reader/client that way.

Good luck!


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-----Original Message-----
From: freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org
[mailto:freebsd-users-admin at uk.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Richard A Barrow
Sent: Tuesday, 04 December, 2007 22:03
To: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
Subject: Mail server question

Hi all, I have a challenge as follows.

Multiple web mail accounts that allow pop3 access. Now these have restricted
mail box sizes, what I want to do is setup a mail server at home to go out
and download the email from the accounts on a regular basis so that my web
mail boxes always have space available.

Any ideas on how I can go about this? Do qpopper / exim / sendmail contain
such options? Or is there a port I have not seen that fits the bill?

Regards Richard




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