Exchange Server replacement for home network?

Hello all,

I've done some reading on Exchange Server replacements, and I have
what seems to be a unique requirement. We run Exchange at work, and I
find that the thing that is most useful to me is that I can get at my
email from any number of (Windows) machines -- unlike if I use POP3 to
pull down my mail from various accounts to a local drive and want
access to it from another machine.

So, here's the two things I'm looking for, and hopefully someone can
point me to the right product:

1.) I'd like to get the email I have in 4 or 5 email accounts into a
single location. I could do with forwards, so this may not be an
issue.

2.) Have the email in #1 pulled down and stored locally on a server on
my home network. Again, this doesn't sound too bad, but I'd like to
be able to get at it from multiple machines (and multiple OSes) --
perhaps something with a nice web interface?


Things like calendars and shared public folders would be nice, but
really not necessary. Work's the only place that I use that sort of
thing, and I plan to keep it that way.

Thanks for any suggestions!

In message <(E-Mail Removed)> , Maynard wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've done some reading on Exchange Server replacements, and I have
> what seems to be a unique requirement. We run Exchange at work, and I
> find that the thing that is most useful to me is that I can get at my
> email from any number of (Windows) machines -- unlike if I use POP3 to
> pull down my mail from various accounts to a local drive and want
> access to it from another machine.
>
> So, here's the two things I'm looking for, and hopefully someone can
> point me to the right product:
>
> 1.) I'd like to get the email I have in 4 or 5 email accounts into a
> single location. I could do with forwards, so this may not be an
> issue.
>
> 2.) Have the email in #1 pulled down and stored locally on a server on
> my home network. Again, this doesn't sound too bad, but I'd like to
> be able to get at it from multiple machines (and multiple OSes) --
> perhaps something with a nice web interface?
>
>
> Things like calendars and shared public folders would be nice, but
> really not necessary. Work's the only place that I use that sort of
> thing, and I plan to keep it that way.
>
What you need is an IMAP server. That's what I use here, it lets me log on
from a lot of different machines and stores the messages on the server.

Plenty of IMAP clients around, Netscape has done IMAP since pre-Mozilla
days, various Linux mail clients support it. Hell, even Outlook Express
supports it so you'll be pretty much OK on any Windows machine you might
find.

Dave
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(E-Mail Removed) (Maynard) writes:

> 1.) I'd like to get the email I have in 4 or 5 email accounts into a
> single location. I could do with forwards, so this may not be an
> issue.
>
> 2.) Have the email in #1 pulled down and stored locally on a server on
> my home network. Again, this doesn't sound too bad, but I'd like to
> be able to get at it from multiple machines (and multiple OSes) --
> perhaps something with a nice web interface?
>

Use fetchmail to grab mail from all of your accounts and store it on
your local server. Use an IMAP server such as courier to serve your mail
via imap. You will be able to access the mail with outlook, evolution,
mutt, etc.. Get webmail software such as squirrelmail to allow access to
the imap message store via a web browser.

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