Thanks guys for all that brainstorming!
Right now I don't have the time to set up a separate mail server which is mostly because I'm not in town at the moment, but I'll look into this as soon as I'm back and have a weekend off.
Cheers, Nico
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Kaz Kylheku kaz@kylheku.com wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:35:30 -0700, Kaz Kylheku kaz@kylheku.com wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:21:42 -0400, Nico Schlömer nico.schloemer@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Stan,
I'm sorry that my not clarifying the background of this unsettled you somewhat.
I'm a PhD student at the University of Antwerp http://win.ua.ac.be/content/staff and like many of my colleagues, I was dissatisfied with the webmail interface that the ICT would provide: It's old, it's buggy, and it seems unmaintained.
One solution would be to set up a mail server in the CS department; maybe the University IT would go for that, depending on the rapport between them and the CS dept.
Actually this may be unnecessary. If the big university mail system supports user configurable mail forwarding and properly falls back on A records if MX records are not available for a domain, then all you need is to control some machine in the CS department (some-machine.cs.university) which is visible on the network and has a DNS A record.
Set up a mail server on that machine for the domain "some-machine.cs.university", with a MTA, IMAP server, webmail, etc.
Then just forward university mails to "yourself@some-machine.cs.university" or whatever its name is.
Be sure to use your proper e-mail address when sending, not the @some-machine.
This way you and your colleagues don't need to individually run things like imapproxy or fetchmail cron jobs, and you avoid polling the university IMAP server.
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