On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:52:59 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > >Hi Peter, > >On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:57:51AM +0100, Peter Jamrisko typed: >> Hello! >> >> My name is Peter Jamrisko and I'm from Slovakia. In network with 10 >> computers I already installed FreeBSD release 4.6. I need help (how >> to) to install MAIL SERVER: > >What exactly do you want your "MAIL SERVER" to do? >How will the 10 computers on your network be accessing the server >(pop3, imap, or just telnet/ssh in and read mail locally) >Note that sendmail (or postfix, for that matter) is just an MTA. It >will not do pop3 or imap. For these you'll have to install the >corresponding programs, e.g. qpopper and imap-uw. > >> 1. On this network without connection to Internet (only in local >> network), > >Start by setting up mailboxes on the FreeBSD server. The simplest way >of doing this is by just creating the users with adduser. >Since sendmail is allready running you can without further configuration >send local mail between those users. >You can install qpopper (pkg_add -r qpopper) to let your WinXP clients >access these mailboxes.
just for a note, you might try courier-imap; it has imap and pop3 built in.. I also noticed that courier's pop3d is about 4x faster than qpopper on a LAN.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
