I am looking for suggestions and maybe even links, on info on setting up a LAN mail server. It needs to collect ISP email and send email to an ISP.
So, collect @orcon.net.nz email, store it in imap or what ever and send it back to orcon. No IP address or domain name, just ISP email.
I am a complete email server nub, so any help would be great.
Mike
Use getmail (much simpler and easier to use than fetchmail) to pickup your email from your isp (crontab, login scripts, any other imaginative way you feel like calling it) Exim4 for email server cos sendmail makes me cry. There are others though - postfix, qmail I've been using Cyrus for the imap server (or there's courier, binc blah blah) So, getmail grabs email from your ISP, pushes it through to exim4 which then delivers it to cyrus for storage. As for sending, the email server makes the outbound connections to where ever it needs to to deliver the email, eg other ISP's, companies etc. It can be configured to send everything through your ISP's email server, but that's not necessary and considerably less geek-worthy. http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/ http://www.exim.org/ The bit that you'll probably find the most difficult about it all is creating a new router in the email server config file. As per usual, read everything you can get your hands on. After that, you can set getmail up to pipe your email through spam filters & virus scanners etc.