Yo! Techy Doods

[themidnightgirl]

Hmm

Interesting...I could do with some help here...

Right.. Here is the current setup

+--------------------+       +------------------+
| Nildram POP Server | ----> | Nildram Web Mail |
+--------------------+       +------------------+
         |
 D/L on user command
         |
         V
+------------------+
| Home POP Client  |
+------------------+

Here's what I'd like

+--------------------+       +------------------+
| Nildram POP Server | ----> | Nildram Web Mail |
+--------------------+       +------------------+
         |
 D/L Periodically or on remote command
         |
         V
+------------------+       +------------------+
| Home POP Server  | ----> | Home Web Mail    |
+------------------+       +------------------+
         |
 D/L on user command
         |
         V
+------------------+
| Home POP Client  |
+------------------+

All of the centre section can be on either Linux or Windows, but it has to be free as am skint.

Basically, the idea is to prevent my mailbox on the Nildram server from getting too full, which bumps my work webstats and makes it difficult to work with.

Is this doable?

Robert

Comments

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!

[bringeroflight.livejournal.com]

LJ CUT!!! LJ CUT!!!!!

Some of us are having "issues" with that on our friends pages...

Re: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!!

[borusa.livejournal.com]

refresh! refresh! I used the wrong tag before! It looks OK now (and was only wrong for about two minutes)

Robert

OMG!!!!!!

[nocturnia.livejournal.com]

You said Doods!!
Hehe

I'll have a think.. basically we need a home pop server/relayer.
Simplest thing is an SMTP set up..but that can cause issues.

Will think it over.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

fetchmail does what you want.

It's not got a very good reputation, but it does by and large work, and there isn't really anything else. (Although see my webpage for a simple perl script that downloads a single mailbox with pretty good reliability - I used it for a couple of years.) Whether you wish to entrust important email to it is your call, really.

[borange.livejournal.com]

hmm yup its doable

you could even do it using exchange :o)

*hides from other techies*

as for linux stuff I'm sadly out of date there :o(
but I know some peeps who aren't I'll ask about

in the meantime investigate Christi's perl stuff - I once came across ehr webpage whilst srufing questions for work so it can only be a good thing :o)

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how curious. Do you happen to remember what you were looking up at the time?

[borange.livejournal.com]

hmm eerr a perl script to do something ;o)

actually honestly can't rememebr now jsut rememebr finding the page and going 'ohh I know her'

I'm always amused when I find friends pages accidentally so I tend to remember doing it just not often why

I'm pretty sure it was through a yahoo/google link tho

[chrisvenus]

As christi says fetchmail downloads stuff from pop servers. It sounds like you want a setup as I have.

I get mail on my internet account (blackcatnewtorks) which has a webmail. I download this via pop to my gateway at home (running redhat) and then access it via IMAP from any other machines in the house.

Apart from the IMAP its what you want.

Required stuff is basically a linux box with a pop server running on it and a pop client (such as fetchmail). This is obviously not free but I assume that your box labelled "home pop server" is different to the home pop client and thus is a computer you already have or something.

In case it is relevant I use IMAP inside the house because it means I can easily access my mail from any computer in the house and can easily access it from outside the house by sshing into the gateway machine.

I use outlook's autoarchive facility to move all mail older than a month off of the imap server and into outlook PST style mailboxes.

Jsut shout if you want any more details of the setup.