[horde] horde dyndns googlemail

[Florian Brandner]

Moin!

> Setting up an email server on your local network is certainly an  
> option, and is what I, personally, do...but I have both experience
> and other reasons for doing so. However, you mention that you do not
> have a static ip address - which leads me to believe you are on a
> "consumer grade" internet connection. You should first check with
> your provider to see if this is allowed, or even possible without
> breaking your TOS agreement. A number of providers will block the
> ports commonly used for SMTP traffic. Not to mention the fact that if
> you use a local SMTP server, you will likely experience bounces, as
> your ip address will be on a number of black lists.

My application is maybe similar: A (german) consumer internet
connection, dyndns, horde (plus IMP, kronolith...) mostly for my own
personal use.
I tried different setups, and personally I think the most flexible one
is installing a local email server in combination with fetchmail for
receiving mails. So you're not running a "real" internet email server
and don't have any problems with IP Blacklisting, possible port
blockings, TOS violations etc.

> As far as it being possible to use with gmail etc... Off hand I
> would say as long as the server is IMAP server it *should* work, but
> I do remember some questions on the mailing list about IMP working
> properly with gmail.

IMP should be able to connect GMail directly if you activate
IMAP-Support in you GMail-Settings, I think it is disabled by default.

But I am not sure how the gmail webinterface currently handles the
imap-folders, at least some time ago this caused some hassle. If you're
not using gmails webinterface and handle all your mails with IMP
instead it should work fine. But in that case you maybe should fetch
all your gmail-mails with fetchmail using POP3 and let IMP handle
everything else. At least that is my setup and it works fine for months
now :-)

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