JF,
Pi is usable to host an dovecot email server, but remember that SD Cards are not hard drives and tend to fail more often unless you use industrial grade ones ( do not ask how I know :) ) Or make backups on a regular basis.
For fecthing emails you should look at fetchmail, something like https://www.linode.com/docs/email/clients/using-fetchmail-to-retrieve-email. That's another thing, and I'm sure you'll find forums to help you on this.
That said, don't be afraid to try. I had a dovecot runing on pi with nginx. Really easy to clone to make a small cluster for testing.
Cedric
2016-10-31 11:49 GMT-04:00 jean francois pion jean.francois.pion@free.fr:
hello,
i'm quite a newbie to the mail server instalation and admin (you must start one day !)
i would like to use a rapberry pi to build a system to get the mails from different mail accounts via pop, to store them in the raspberry memory an be able to get them with my thunderbird client on the different computers on my local network.
no need to accesse them via internet it is for local use only.
the puropose is to avoid gettin my fai mail box full and loosing mails (quite a big mail traffic )
no need for spamkiller i've got what i want already on the computer
no need for an smtp relay the computer can acces the fai smtp,
is dovecot able to do that ?
thank you
sorry for the bad english
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