So, I want to use my home ubuntu server to get my mail. We've got three or four PC's in the house, and it's getting annoying only having my mail on one machine. Plus, there's a lack of motion around the SAWin 32 project, and I'd like to keep up to date against the scum sucking spammers. This one uses various components;
FetchMail: This downloads my mail from my ISP via POP and passes it to....
Postfix: A Mail Server, it pases my mail to ...
Spam Assassin: This scans the mail, and if it's spammy, it tags it as spam, then passes it back to ...
Postfix, which then stores it in a MailDir where....
Dovecot: A IMAP mail server, this then serves up my Maildir via IMAP to ....
Thunderbird on my Laptop.
So, Steps in Order
Install and Configure Postfix
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixBasicSetupHowto
Install Dovecot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dovecot
This was complicated because the guides suggested using port 10143 for IMAP, and Thunderbird defaulted to 143 and complained there was no response. Took a while to catch that one !
Setup SpamAssassin
http://www.debuntu.org/postfix-and-pamassassin-how-to-filter- spam-p2
http://www.wantlinux.net/?p=17
http://blog.redbranch.net/2008/04/spamassassin-and-sa-update.html
Setup sa-update and sa-learn
http://blog.redbranch.net/2008/04/spamassassin-and-sa-update.html
Setup Fetchmail
http://ccgi.maxpower.plus.com/2007/02/10/fetch-email-with-fetchmail-and-ubuntu/
