Need Email Setup Advice

[Mark Phillips]

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 11:42 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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.
> ----
> 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,

Thanks for the comments. 

* Thanks for the tip for using the Cox smtp server for outgoing mail. 

* I included zoneedit, (which is not great and is slow) because I have
my domains at godaddy. I point them to zoneedit's servers, and then use
zoneedit to send the email to my cox account. I wish I could have
zoneedit forward to a different port for postfix and bypass getmail, but
I don't think they do that. Is there anything better than zoneedit for
free?

Thanks again!

Mark
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