Hello, yes, you are right. I have zero experience in mailservers. So I followed your diagram and installed postfix, played with the configuration file, and after a few trail and errors, it works. Postfix is really simple.
Thanks! Sebastiaan > The protocol for fetching is mostly POP3 (Post Office Protocol > 3). > The protocol for sending is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). > The difficult part is that the Server always send their mails through > SMTP and recieve it through SMTP. So you need to run a SMTPd like > sendmail, qmail or postfix. (I realy like the last one, cause it's > easy to configure and something like secure) > Fetchmail (a program for fetching mails) delivers the mails local to > the local SMTPd wich takes the Mail and puts it into your spool file. > > O.K. the hole prozess looks somthing like this > > You send your mail through SMTP to the relay server. > SMTP-->SMTP > The relay server delivers the mail through SMTP to the final > destination (could be a Mail gateway) > SMTP-->SMTP > The destination looks up the user and/or other access roules and > delivers the mail through SMTP into the local user mailbox (normaly > /var/spool/mail/<user_name> > SMTP-->Mailbox > Then your friend connect through POP3 to the server and fetches the > mail. > Mailbox-->POP3 > Local the fetchmail programm delivers the Mail through SMTP into the > local mailbox > POP3-->SMTP-->Mailbox. > > Hope it's not to hard do unterstand. > > Try postfix and go to www.postfix.org! > > Cu, > Sven > > -- > ACHTUNG! Aktuelle e-mail Adresse ist [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================== > One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, > One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
