Not sure really what to call it.
I
don't want a mail server at home - in other words I don't want to have to point the MX records for my domain name at my home server and have to mess about with all sorts of junk like that. I want to continue to use the mail servers that are provided as part of my web hosting package.
What I
do want to do is have a box sat at home that periodicaly goes off and quietly downloads emails from all of my various POP accounts and files them into nice folders. Then I would like to be able to browse (using a web browser) to an application on that server and access my emails. I also want to be able to send emails, so I'd like my server to allow me to create emails and then it would go off and send them using the SMTP servers of my domain host/ISP/whatever.
So.....
I'm thinking SquirrelMail for the web-based interface, and I'm thinking that the back end of it should be some sort of IMAP storage system (I think SM needs this anyway). I can't find any useful information though on whether it's possible to set the IMAP server up so that it polls multiple POP accounts and then files the emails it receives accordingly. I also can't confirm whether or not SM can send email
through the IMAP server, to the SMTP server that's operated by my web hosting company.
My web host
do offer web-based access, but it's not that quick (and I'd have to remember all the different logins and passwords).
At the moment I'm using Outlook, but obviously this ties me to one machine (no IMAP server) and it also ties me to Windows.
Anybody know of any good guides for putting together the sort of box I'm talking about?
Actually, did any of that make any sense at all?
Cheers
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