Re: Need Email Setup Advice

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 10:50 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I want to try using the Funambol server with my blackberry. Funambol is
> a push email/pim Open Source replacement for the proprietary Blackberry
> Information Server.
>
> Funambol needs to talk to an IMAP email server to synchronize the inbox
> and other folders. However, my cox account only offers POP3. I have been
> trying to find the glue to get email from cox to Funambol. Cox blocks
> port 25, so I cannot just use my own mail server with my domains.
>
> I have been googling around and think I have one possible solution, but
> I am not sure it is the simplest.
>
> 1. zoneedit to send email from mydomain.com to my cox account
> 2. Getmail to download mail from cox.
> 3. Postfix & dovecot & amavirus to store email and make it available to
> funambol
>
> #3 comes from this article -
> http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ and it was very easy to set
> up.
>
> Is this setup overkill for my application? Should I look at other ways
> to meet my objectives?
>
> Two other wrinkles - I have 2 domains, and each user gets & send email
> on the two domains (total of 5 users). I am running Debian etch.
>
> Thanks for any advice you have on ways to simplify this setup.
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1. You can use 'smarthost' settings on postfix or sendmail to relay
outbound mail through their smtp server. That is the simplest thing to
do.

2. I have never used 'getmail' but I do use 'fetchmail' which retrieves
e-mail using various protocols (pop3 is one of them) which then feeds
the mail through my setup of MailScanner/postfix/cyrus-imapd.
MailScanner is like amavisd-new...a wrapper that checks incoming mail
and sends it through clamav, spamassassin before delivery.

3. Dovecot is fine as an imap server (I prefer cyrus-imapd but dovecot
is simpler).

4. You are likely going to have to set up a local DNS to handle e-mail -
I don't see much value in using something like zoneedit unless you
expect offsite connections and Cox blocks ports 25 & 80 on
DHCP/residential accounts anyway.

Craig

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