[Courses] please reply with what kind of courses are you interested in

[Steven Walker]

Thanks for the response. I am not sure that this is now in the right
section - maybe another course has just started :)

>Since there are a lot of choices for making this chain:
>  
>
That is part of the problem, knowing where to start is difficult.

> 1. Mail Transport Agent: Sendmail, Postfix, Exim or qmail
>
> 2. Mail Delivery Agent: procmail or any of the above
>
> 3. IMAP or POP server (remote access to mailboxes): uw-imap, courier,
>    dovecot...
>
> 4. Spam filtering: SpamAssassin or SpamBayes or a number of others
>
> 5. Mail User Agents: mutt, Evolution, KMail, slypheed and millions of
>    others
>
>and a lot of the choices are independent, people wanting this might want
>to specify their needs a little better... ie, how do you want to use
>your mail?
>
It is for home use so simple to use helps . I am fed up with having my
various email accounts on various computers and never knowing exactly
where to search for a particular message or address.  My imaginary setup
would be my server downloading my mail from various pop3 servers,
filtering it for spam and filing it. Then, probably using Imap, I can
access my mail from whichever computer I happen to be using.

Being a wannabe geek I would probably want to do as much for myself as
possible. Can I cut out my ISP's SMTP server and do it all myself? (and
save a lot of anti-relaying problems when I am away from home and using
the laptop). I would also like to try running my own POP3 server but
probably would not trust it for serious use as there is too much that
can go wrong.

But I do not know enough about the subject to really specify my
requirements so I am open to anything.


Steve