In message <(E-Mail Removed) >, Lee Hanken
wrote:
> My family currently access all our email from a machine in the living
> room. It is sorted into folders according to who it is to by Outlook
> Express. I thought it would be nice if we could access our mail from
> our own computers (without all switching to new separate email
> accounts).
>
> I am considering setting up a linux box on my home network to collect
> email from 2 or more external POP accounts on request and then serve
> it to POP or IMAP clients on the network.
>
> The machines on the network I am envisaging will have local IP
> addresses assigned by the DHCP serving wired+wireless router (attached
> to my broadband cable modem), such as 192.168.0.x and will be running
> various operating systems.
>
> My first question is what combination of software can accomplish the
> task of immediately getting mail from various sources and serving it,
> whenever a client email program makes a connection.
>
> My second, more troublesome, question is how can I specify an internet
> address to the mail clients that will resolve to whatever dynamically
> assigned IP address my 'mail-hub' happens to have.
>
Do you have to the mailhub get a dynamic IP? Just reduce the range allocated
by the router by one and assign that one statically to the mailhub. Then
you can put an entry in the hosts file on each of the other machines so
they'll always know what it is.
Also, some more modern router boxes will do some form of dynamic DNS on the
addresses served but it depends on whether yours is one of them. You could
always set up the Linux box to do the DHCP for you and also run a local
DNS, that's what I have here and it updates nicely from one to the other.
It's quite easy to do from the relevant HOWTOs.
> Please let me know if I am thinking in entirely the wrong direction,
> or if what I am suggesting is possible.
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