Wifely-type problem

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Fri Nov 5 16:25:06 GMT 2010


On 11/5/2010 11:06 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> All of this is concerning my home setup, not business, so....
>
> My wife is constantly getting into a bind with her home email account. 
> She's one of those types that subscribes to everything and gets tons 
> of crappy email as a result. Her DSL server mailbox is so full now, 
> that she can't download what's up there from the server. I'd like to 
> do something like the following, so if anyone sees a problem with my 
> plans or knows of a better way, please speak up.
>
> I'd like to build a Centos server and put MS and Mailwatch on it. 
> Probably put some type of webmail on there also. Then use fetchmail as 
> a cron job to download her DSL email to the Centos server, let MS 
> clean up the junk, let her monitor the email on the Centos server with 
> webmail and MW and flush the rest of the junk, and then point her mail 
> client to retrieve the email from the Centos box byway of POP to her 
> home machine. All this would be on my home network.  Hopefully, it'll 
> fall into some manageable order.
>
> Does that sound reasonable?
>
> Steve Campbell
I do exactly this here at home. all except for MW. It really makes it nice
to be able to control several mail accounts from one server.

ISP-fetchmail-MailScanner-clamav/spamassassin-pop3, or openwebmail.

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