On Tuesday, July 01, 2003 11:22 AM, Ed Skinner wrote:

> Looks like I'll have fetchmail set up in a cron entry, 
> and I'll need to have an SMTP agent on machine #1 to 
> "serve" the Email out to me (kmail, on same system) or
> my wife (mozilla, different system).

I just finished setting up something similar to this at home.  Here's what I
have:

1) I created Maildir mailboxes for my wife and I
(http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html).
2) I set up fetchmail on my Linux box.  It retrieves email from our various
POP3 accounts and stuffs it into the Maildir folders
(http://budney.homeunix.net:8080/users/budney/linux/software/safecat/one-lin
ers.html).
3) I installed Courier IMAP (http://www.inter7.com/courierimap.html).  This
serves up the email in our Maildir mailboxes to whatever MUA we might be
using.  I use Evolution when I'm on my Linux box, my wife uses Outlook on
her Windows 2000 PC and I use Outlook on my Windows XP laptop.
4) I already had Apache installed and running, so I installed and configured
SquirrelMail (http://www.squirrelmail.org/) to enable us to read our mail
with a web browser from our LAN or from the Internet.

> (Suggestions for the spam filtering daemon would be
> appreciated.)

My wife and I have been lucky.  I have had the same @Home/Cox email address
at home for about 4 years, and I have gotten about 3 pieces of spam EVER
(not including the weekly emails I was getting for a while from X10.com
after I bought the X10 starter kit).  (Knock wood.)  My wife used to get
about 50 spam messages PER DAY, but we changed her email address and she
hasn't gotten any spam since then.  

~Jeff