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.pion at
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
>
>
>
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