Looking for POP mail server for home
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I'm looking for a free app that I can use as a mail server on my home PC. The problem I have is that we (the family) all use the same email account for our mail, with just the bit before the '@' changing for each of us, so that I am paul@fr.., my wife is wife@fr..., and so on. When I log on and collect my mail I throw away my wife's, and she does the same (throw away mine, I mean!), and so on. (Our settings in Outlook leave the messages on the server for 10 days to allow this.) This however means that everything gets downloaded several times, and, as we are on a dial-up connection we want to avoid this. What I want is something that will run in the background and download email from our pop address whenever someone (anyone) is on-line. Then when each user checks their own mail this server gives them their own mail, without having to download it from the ISP. I guess this what we acheive in the office with MS Exchange, but that's a bit over-the-top for home use. Surely there must be something out there that will suit my purpose? Does anybody kwow of anything? (We're running XP Home, and we use POP for collecting our mail.) Thanks, Paul.
"The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice" - Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)
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I'm looking for a free app that I can use as a mail server on my home PC. The problem I have is that we (the family) all use the same email account for our mail, with just the bit before the '@' changing for each of us, so that I am paul@fr.., my wife is wife@fr..., and so on. When I log on and collect my mail I throw away my wife's, and she does the same (throw away mine, I mean!), and so on. (Our settings in Outlook leave the messages on the server for 10 days to allow this.) This however means that everything gets downloaded several times, and, as we are on a dial-up connection we want to avoid this. What I want is something that will run in the background and download email from our pop address whenever someone (anyone) is on-line. Then when each user checks their own mail this server gives them their own mail, without having to download it from the ISP. I guess this what we acheive in the office with MS Exchange, but that's a bit over-the-top for home use. Surely there must be something out there that will suit my purpose? Does anybody kwow of anything? (We're running XP Home, and we use POP for collecting our mail.) Thanks, Paul.
"The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice" - Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)
why not each person get a Gmail account, use the pop3 service and download to your own individual folder? personal email accounts on the net are easy these days. However products like http://www.software602.com/products/ls/[^] can sort email. You still have to have something to sort with. I use Thunderbird with a filter looking through my address book to define a friends folder, this moves all email from known people into a new folder. Similarly you could use an email filter (in outlook or another email program) to filter on your names, route email to your own folders. This way, although email is downloaded only once, it is sorted into your box, her box, or unknown. Personally, I'd just get a gmail account and bypass the filtering if all you want is seperate email. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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why not each person get a Gmail account, use the pop3 service and download to your own individual folder? personal email accounts on the net are easy these days. However products like http://www.software602.com/products/ls/[^] can sort email. You still have to have something to sort with. I use Thunderbird with a filter looking through my address book to define a friends folder, this moves all email from known people into a new folder. Similarly you could use an email filter (in outlook or another email program) to filter on your names, route email to your own folders. This way, although email is downloaded only once, it is sorted into your box, her box, or unknown. Personally, I'd just get a gmail account and bypass the filtering if all you want is seperate email. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Thanks for your reply. I've downloaded 602 Lan Suite, from the link you posted, and it works perfectly.:)
"The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice" - Proverbs 12:15 (NIV)