[MlMt] Local email archiving status/options?

[Muster Hans]

On 25 Aug 2015, at 23:59, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 25 Aug 2015, at 13:25, Muster Hans wrote:
>
>> As far as I am aware the mail component of the $20 Apple OS Server 
>> product requires a fixed IP address, plus appropriate DNS entries of 
>> course.
>
> For direct incoming delivery to mail addresses your own domain, yes: 
> as it is with any SMTP server.
>
> However, if you just want Server for the IMAP side of the mail 
> service, i.e. somewhere to stash mail locally so you can remove it 
> from dependence on an ISP's IMAP service, Server is happy to turn on 
> its "Mail" service with nothing but a private IP (192.168.*, 10.* 
> etc.) and never receive mail via SMTP. That's a bit wasteful of 
> resources (i.e. you're running Postfix for no reason...) but it does 
> give one a working Dovecot IMAP instance without having to read the 
> copious Dovecot docs to figure out how much of it is entirely unneeded 
> for a trivial deployment.

That sounds useful thanks, and with that knowledge I'm inclined to do 
battle with OS X Server again :-)