I have a personal dual boot laptop and a personal dual boot pc, both Suse 10.1 and Winxp. Also have a company pc WinXP all have access to a Suse 10.0 Compaq 800 samba server. I have 2 personal mail accounts and one buisness mail account. I access all accounts with all machines. What I would like is to leave my mail and access my mail on the server with all my machines.
Everything I have read about mailservers is they do not leave mail on server. Squirell mail requires a webserver would rather not have to setup webserver. Is there any mail program out there that will let me access and store my accounts on the samba server?
Thank you
Ken Ellis

I'm not sure what you've read, but it sounds wrong to me.

MTA's (mail transport agents) simply deliver mail to a mailbox (say sendmail, postfix, qmail, etc). You then use a server to allow MUA's (the acronym escapes me for a moment, but think outlook, evolution, etc) to read the mail.

If you use a pop server, then generally the mail is downloaded to the MUA, whereas imap generally leaves it on the server. I use dovecot, but courier-imap is another.

Squirrelmail interfaces with the server to read mail from the web.

Using an MTA with an imap server on your samba machine sounds like it will do what you want.

Personally, I run postfix, dovecot and squirrelmail, and use outlook from windows machines to access mail. All mail stays on the server.

Have a look at www.postfix.org I've also seen plenty of posts refer to www.qmailrocks.or (at least I think that's it).

You can also run spam and virus filters in conjunction with the MTA to trap any nasties.


Rgds


Bill

Edit - note that if you want to pick up mail from, say, and ISP pop account, look at fetchmail, which then delivers to the MTA