Email. Is something like this possible?

hondaman · 02-11-2006, 01:56 AM

I currently download my mail from gmail into thunderbird on windows. What would be cooler, is if I had a mail server on one of my linux boxes retrieve my mail, and I then check my mail on my linux box.

That part probably isnt hard at all. The problem would be importing all my mail (years and years of it) that I currently have in thunderbird into my new mail system/server I would setup in linux.

Is this doable?

uselpa · 02-11-2006, 02:09 AM

If you have Thunderbird on Linux, you can simply copy your Thunderbird data files from Windows to Linux. That's the simplest solution.
Why do you want a mail server?

hondaman · 02-11-2006, 05:20 PM

i think it would be cool to have a local mail server, to store and backup my mail locally instead of it all being on gmails site.

Komakino · 02-11-2006, 05:30 PM

I think fetchmail could be used to save it to a local mailbox

uselpa · 02-12-2006, 03:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hondaman

i think it would be cool to have a local mail server, to store and backup my mail locally instead of it all being on gmails site.

But Thunderbird does that too... a mail server makes sense only if you offer this service to other machines. Will you?