[warning: 99% OT] does anything like this exist ?...

[Fred Pacquier]

Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net> said :

> Rather that doing that, you might consider simply setting up a local
> IMAP server on your Linux box.  Have a program (such as fetchmail)
> pull down your POP3 email, filter it using procmail and feed it into
> the IMAP server so that you can then access it from anywhere.
 
Thanks, Cliff. I realize this would be the "standard" way of going about 
such things (didn't want to bloat the original post :-). However I tend to 
think of it as a fallback solution if nothing else comes up, if only for 
the following reasons :

* a lot of upfront work : several major packages (fetchmail, procmail, 
imapd) I have no hands-on experience with, a lot of reading/learning and a 
lot of little things to get just right in each... In my mind the solution 
I'm after could be a much simpler affair, but then maybe I'm daydreaming :)

* one more potential security hole on my home machine : I tend to limit 
open ports on that one to a bare minimum, my admin skills & available time 
being quite limited...

* availability : my ISP doesn't filter spam but otherwise does a good job 
of keeping its server up. Depending on my own setup means I could get shut 
out when away from home because of a power failure, DSL downtime, a full 
disk, or any of a myriad other domestic problems...

I've been paged about so many similar setups in the workplace that I'll 
avoid them at home if I can... But then, sometimes you _do_ have to turn to 
plan B :-) 

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