On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:33:30 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:22:39PM +0200, Ivailo Bonev wrote: > > I have a Windows machine that get all e-mails, from few accounts, > > from different Internet providers. I want to setup FreeBSD machine > > that get all mails from accounts and remote and local users get > > their mails from that FreeBSD mail storage server. I don't own a > > domain or MX records. > > Ok. > > > I read many docs in Intrernet, and now I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 > > RELEASE, with installed fetchmail port (to get mail from various > > accounts), > > Fetchmail is the right tool for the job. > > > sendmail-sasl port, and dovecot for IMAP server. But now I'm lost, > > from where to start configuring FreeBSD mail server? > > IMHO postfix is easier to set up than sendmail, but the principles are > the same. > > I would make users on the FreeBSD machine for everyone that needs to > download mail from the machine. Use a non-existent home-directory and > /usr/bin/nologin as the shell for these accounts. > > Use the virtual hosts feature to deliver mail for different addresses > to local users. See e.g. > http://mathforum.org/~sasha/tech/sendmailvhosts.html Use 'virtual' for all users, local or not if Postfix is employed. It makes setting up the system a whole lot easier and potentially more secure. > I haven't used dovecot, so I can't help you much with that. If your > FreeBSD server and the windows clients are on a trusted private > subnet, I would probably just use plain text authentication. Setting up SSL/TLS on Postfix is really trivial. I use it myself. Again, it increases the security factor. > > And one last thing, how can deliver all mail messages from Outlook > > Express client from Windows machine to FreeBSD mail server machine? > > You can set the FreeBSD machine as the outgoing mail server in > Outlook. But this might not work, depending on your set-up. If you > relay the mail to your ISP's mailserver, it probably won't handle > incoming mail from addresses outside his domain. Unless there is some weird firewall, I don't see what the problem would be. > Roland -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. Dave Sim, author of "Cerebus"
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