I've done some more reading on this, and I think I know what I've got to
do, but could someone confirm I've got the right idea for I start. I
think I need to:
Set my home server to forward email to my desktop.
Setup an MTA on my desktop.
Setup an MDA on my desktop.
Possibly also configure the MTA on my home server to cope with my
desktop not being on when it tries to forward the email.
Thanks,
Leo
Andy Random wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Leo wrote:
>
>> The second is: is it possible to get my server on my home network to
>> send its local mail to my desktop. Again, so I don't have to remember to
>> check it?
>
> Forwarding email from things like root accounts is pretty much the
> standard way of handling this in my experience.
>
> You don't say which distro you are using and exactly how to do this will
> depend on the distro (or more exactly the MTA - mail transfer agent - you
> are using, but I'm guessing you will be using the distros default MTA).
>
> If it's Debian you most likely have Exim, for Red Hat/Fedora based
> distros it will probably be sendmail and for Ubuntu I think it's Postfix.
>
> Let us know which distro/MTA and we can point you in the right direction.
>
>
> Andy
>
>
