Arias, Thanks for your reply and thanks for laying it out in an easy-to-understand manner. I'll try it out!
PB On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:40, Arias Hung wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Phil Bardanes wrote: > > > Hi, noob here. > > > > We have five machines running various OSes (only one Windows box) with a > > Debian sarge business server on our private network. Everything is run > > through a dedicated firewall using iptables rules for NAT, packet > > filtering, port forwarding, etc. We also have a public server for our > > public website. We are using a shared dynamic IP and dyndns.org. > > > > I know very little about setting up mail servers, but I can figure out > > the set up of the actual software. The problem is whether the software > > will do what I want. This is what I want to do, and I want to start out > > in a way that I can understand. I think that I just want to set up a > > POP/IMAP server only. I do not want a domain associated with the > > mailserver. > > > > I want to set up the mail server to check and download email for all of > > our accounts from various POP servers and store it on our business > > server on our private network. > > For this, use fetchmail and if you want a delivery agent to hand off to that will > sort it in individual Mail directories rather than leaving it in the spool have > procmail installed and configured for this too. Or, you could leave the procmail > config up to the individual users depending on how they wish to sort their incoming > mail. But in either case, have procmail installed. > > > Then, each user can download his/her > > email for the given account from the business server at whatever point > > they want. I want them to have the capability of leaving mail on the > > business server or removing it (IMAP/POP). > > Cool, IMAP4 take your pick of cyrus or UW, and POP3 just as you guessed. Matter or > preference on which IMAP server, if you want email divided into many small files, > each representing one email, install cyrus with maildirs, if not uw imap4 would be > fine. > > > > > For sending mail, I just want to use our ISP's smtp server, so I do not > > need a smtp server. I can just use the local machine's MTA to send the > > mail. So, the send process can bypass the mail server. > > You have your choice of > > > > How would you suggest that I do this? Would sendmail, exim, qmail do > > this? Are there any links that cover this that you would suggest? > > you have your choice of out the box exim that comes preinstalled, or something like > qmail or postfix that doesn't run as root. Within this mta, you can config remote > smtp server for use. > > so in summary > > fetchmail > procmail > exim|postfix|qmail > > and if you're going to run a local mail reader like mutt or pine, you'll want to > install that also. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
