On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:49:25PM -0600, Lance Levsen wrote: > > > What should I install to get mail to work? > > I have a small network: > > -1 debian gateway > > -2 debian boxes > > -4 Win98 PC (sorry, the kids are teached at school with word, excel etc.) > > > Frank. > > I'd suggest Postfix/Courier IMAP. If you have the mail hosted > elsewhere on an POP or IMAP server then add fetchmail to get > the mail and dump it into postfix. The clients should be > able to handle logging into your imap to use their mail.
ditto. Though I use uw-imapd instead of Courier. The general consensus is Courier is better, but I went with uw-imapd because it was "lighter", and I had legacy non-Maildir mailboxes. Courier is nearly 1MB installed including ssl and support packages, compared to 350K for uw-imapd-ssl. Courier uses a seperate authdaemon and serverdaemon, whereas uw-imapd uses the normal inetd. Courier looked like overkill for my system. If I was starting from scratch, I'd probably go with Maildir and Courier because of it's glowing reports. > If you have mail directed to you then you'll probably have to > setup DNS/Postfix/IMAP. > > I'd also suggest procmail just so each user can do what they > want with their own mail delivery. ditto. For DNS I'm using pdnsd, which is a light caching dns proxy with persistant cache contents so it can serve cached DNS contents from bootup without bringing up a link. It has good support for casual dialup, though I'm actually using it for a perm link. The other thing it does that is nice is it can serve up the contents of /etc/hosts via DNS, allowing you to very simply create your own private DNS system, ideal for local masq'ed networks. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABO: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info, including pgp key ----------------------------------------------------------------------
