[tech] Sane mail

[Michael Deegan]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:56:34PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:05:18AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > I'm running this plan by you guys, I'm willing to implement it if 
> > we want to do it.
> 
> Great plan. In fact I think I'd prefer to skip the last step ;
> 
> > Basically the idea is:
> >  * remove all NFS mounts on mooneye
> >  * set up things so that mail lands on mooneye
> ----skip this one----
> >     , mooneye then sends it on to morwong for delivery to mailboxes
> ---------------------
> 
> mooneye can then run POP and IMAP servers directly. Most things will be
> able to access that, but we can wrap elm in a script to use "getmail"
> to suck mail to ~/Mail/mbox or similar. I'm not sure if there's a
> better way, but we can support procmail like that too.

Isn't that almost just like the step your planning to skip, only dodgier? :P

I think I still prefer the idea of port-forwarding connections (SMTP, as
well as IMAP/POP as required) from mooneye to morwong. People are welcome to
think otherwise, of course...

-MD

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