On Tuesday 17 December 2002 21:27, Tony Dietrich wrote:
Anton
I can't give SuSe specific details, as I'm working on RH*, and haven't used SuSe at all, but the way I'm working is to set one machine up as a local mail server, run fetchmail to get the mail down from your ISP(s) onto the mail server, then run either IMAP or pop3 on the server to allow you to collect mail from the server from any of the local machines.
This also gives you the chance to run procmail on the incoming mail to the local mail server to weed out any spam, and your local users can use any client such as KMail to collect the mail from the local server ... they will only appear to have a single account on the server though, and would have to sort mail on their client if they want to see which item comes from with of their internet accounts.
However, there does remain the problem that if they set their client up on different machines to erase the mail from the local server's pop3 system after downloading it to their local machine, you'd get the situation where their mail is spread out over several local machines ... consider setting the network up so that the server also acts as a file server, and your users' /home directory is on that server ... this means that the local copy of the mail they have downloaded to their mail client will remain consistent ... and have the advantage that they always have their own settings whichever machine they log on to.
Thanks, I'll take a look into this.
Anton
TD