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
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For a home LAN? Hardware wise a 386 will do. Can't find a 386? Then find a cheap little 486 or Pentium box on Trademe. Modern distros like at least 32MB of ram, preferably more, size of the disk depends on how much mail you want to store. As for the 'setup'. Use fetchmail (has a great man page) as a cron job or daemon to grab the mail and insert into mailboxes on the local system. It can even do multiple email accounts from the one pop mailbox. Use sendmail to route mail in and out. You probably want to look into the sendmail SMART_HOST() m4 macro to tell sendmail to forward all out bound mail to your ISP's mail server. If you're on dial up Sendmail can also be told that all mail is "expensive" and it will only forward mail when told to explicitly (with sendmail -q). You can plug sendmail into your dialup scripts (driven by cron) so that mail gets exchanged at regular intervals. The sendmail documentation on sendmail.org is actually quite good and with a little experimentation you should be able to sort out what you want. You may also want to read the postscript user guide that should be in /usr/share/doc/sendmail. If you want a good Virus/Spam scanner then I recommend MailScanner (mailscanner.info) which plugs into sendmail very nicely. Maia Mailguard is also good. Regards On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 21:06 +1200, Michael Honeyfield wrote: oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 » www.deeperdesign.com