something to merge all my email...

[Journer]

I'm wondering if there is a program out there that can store all of my emails that can be accessed from muliple programs/platforms...
to illustrate:

i have like 3-4 pop3 emails all comming into my outlook inboxes...along with one imap...
basically...i want to have some kind of server that downloads all the emails and holds them on the server and can be access by outlook, thunderbird, whatever...

ex.
email for pop3 addy 1 comes into server
server holds email
i open outlook on main pc...hey, new email...
i open thunderbird on linux box, hey, same new email...and if i delete/change/whatever that email, the changes take effect on the server and not the individual machines...so, i delete email from linux box...outlook no longer sees it...also, if possible...pop3 email1 goes to its inbox, pop3 email2 can go to its own, etc...AND even more complex...if possible, mail sorting (rules) like in outlook (ex. if email = from ebay, move to ebay folder)...lol...maybe i just want to much?

i've got a copy of exchange server but i dunno if it will do this @_@? ive been thinking about making my server into a linux box (instead of windows, what it is now) so maybe there is some GNU software out there like this?

tell me if something doesnt make sense...i tend to not explain enough, some times at least
thanks

 

[jtusa]

How about forwarding everything to a web based account that allows POP3 forwarding. For example, forward everything to mymailbox@gmail.com, and then just use the POP3 ability of Gmail to check via Thunderbird or whatever. Could even check it on the web if you don't have access to your mail client.

 

[cleverhandle]

Run an IMAP server that grabs all the other accounts' mail via fetchmail or similar. You can do it all with free software on Linux/Unix, but it's not trivial to set up. I wouldn't recommend it as a "My First Linux Box".

 

[Zugzwang152]

Mail forwarding to an IMAP or web-accessible account. Or MS Exchange. Or (insert FOSS Exchange alternative).

 

[kamper]

A simple solution, if you haven't got tight quotas on the imap account, is to just use your mail client to move all the pop emails into the imap account (you might create a subfolder for each pop account). The only thing is, to consistenly move new emails, you'd have to keep the rules synced across your various email clients.

But yeah, setting up your own imap server with fetchmail would be way cooler. I've been meaning to do this for myself for a while but it takes a bit of fiddling and then you also have to worry about backing everything up.

 

[Journer]

i dont think it will be hard to get everything forwarded to an imap server that i host...the only thing that bothers me is...well what if my server goes down (comcast sucks) and me emails start getting returned...i cant risk that, lol

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: Journer
the only thing that bothers me is...well what if my server goes down (comcast sucks) and me emails start getting returned...i cant risk that, lol

That's not how things would work. A typical server for this task uses a regularly scheduled fetchmail job to grab the mail off of the other servers. The other servers have no idea that they're forwarding anything - to them, fetchmail is just another mail client. If your connection goes down, then fetchmail isn't talking to the servers and your mail just waits there until your connection comes back up and fetchmail comes to get it.

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle

Originally posted by: Journer
the only thing that bothers me is...well what if my server goes down (comcast sucks) and me emails start getting returned...i cant risk that, lol

That's not how things would work. A typical server for this task uses a regularly scheduled fetchmail job to grab the mail off of the other servers. The other servers have no idea that they're forwarding anything - to them, fetchmail is just another mail client. If your connection goes down, then fetchmail isn't talking to the servers and your mail just waits there until your connection comes back up and fetchmail comes to get it.

hmmm
/me begins research on fetchmail

 

[skyking]

This is not for the uninitiated, but I used some of this site as a guidline for a mailserver.
It will get the mail, filter the spam, and destroy the most obvious viruses.