On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:12:39PM -0600, markmit at mn.rr.com wrote: > I'm fairly experienced with desktop linux, but not so much with mail > service. > > My network consists of; > HW firewall/router/wireless access point > vlad - Debian stable - headless samba server / misc workhorse > aptiva - Debian testing - desktop > thinkpad - Debian testing - laptop > sethra - Win ME - Wife/kids email/games > > What I want is to be able to do all my email stuff on vlad. Either via > ssh remotely or local network via CLI, or from aptiva or thinkpad from > the local network. And spam filtering, hopefully. For now, this only > has to support my account, perhaps my wife's someday, so no more than a > couple hundred messages a day. > > In my fumblings, I've gotten fetchmail on vlad to retrieve mail from my > pop server, and sent mail (mostly) successfully with exim, so the CLI > part of this is basically sorted. What do I use to allow aptiva and > thinkpad to see/manipulate the email on vlad via (for example) kmail? You simply need a POP3 or IMAP server. I've wu-imapd in the past and currently use dovecot. http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ Works like a charm and is fairly simple to set up. I'm not a debian guy so I don't know what it takes to get it installed but according to the dovecot download page, it's as simple as apt-get install dovecot .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program