Setting up some mail settings need a little help

[Adamal]

I am trying to be able to send and recieve e-mail on my new gentoo box.

I have been search for a way to set it up but most of the documents I've read tell you how to setup your own mail server.

What I want to do is download my ISP mail and map them into local user accounts on my machine and then through Squirrel Mail check and send e-mail through my ISP account. I would also like to be able to connect to my account through POP3 so I can download my e-mail on my laptop through outlook.

The main things that I want to do is download all of my e-mail accounts to my local user account and send mail through my ISP. How can I set all of this up. If anyone can at least point me to the correct docs... I have no problem doing the research I just need to know where to start.

I already have postfix mutt and IMAP installed per the instructions on the Desktop doc.

Please help,
Thanks

[dice]

I think you want fetchmail, it's in Portage.

[Adamal]

so do I want to remove postfix and courier-imap?

[HomerSimpson]

...or getmail. It is also in portage.

Getmail will get the mail from your isp and deliver it locally. If you have a domain set up where you are forwarding all may for your domain to your isp this works nicely. You can use procmail with fetchmail or getmail to parse the mail as it comes in. If you are trying to parse the mail as it is fetched based on the sender then it becomes more difficult.

You do not need postfix if all your mail clients point to your isp as the smtp server. You need imap (or pop) if you are using something like Outlook to get the mail (in case you are in a mixed environment on your lan). Other mail clients (like Evo, mutt...) will read the mbox or maildir directly. So you wouldn't even need imap.

I am not sure about Squirrelmail. I use it but have it setup to use imap (so I use courier imap).

Good luck
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