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Subject: [fetchmail] Setting up home mail server?
I am new to Linux but catching on fast after 3-4 hours a day for the
past month of working on it. I have searched google for some
leads but I
have not found anything basic enough detailing what I am looking for.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to do the following...
Dedicated 333 Mhz PC with RH9 for mail server.
DSL Connection with dynamic IP but do have a dyndns.org account
Wish to get my RH9 mail server set up to fetchmail every 2 minutes
and save all mail on HD. Initially copies of mail, not to
purge my ISP.
Clients to log on my mail server and retrieve mail
Several flavors of OS's with mail clients (OS X, Win2K Outlook, RH9
Evolution)
Clients to send mail to my RH9 mail server and then have
server send it
out upon client disconnecting.
Eventually once this is all set up I want to set up various forms of
spam mail blocking for obvious reasons, the main reason for
me to set up
my mail server.
I have been able to set up fetchmail and DL my messages then use the
mail command to read it. I guess a cron job would be necessary to poll
my ISP every 2 or so minutes
Actually no - fetchmail will happily carry on running indefinitely, polling
at whatever interval you specify.
but then I am at a loss as to how to set up
the clients to look at my mail server computer on the home network to
pick up the mail stored there.
You need to run a POP3 or IMAP server on your home computer, then tell the
home machines to connect to it instead of your ISP. You also need to be
running an SMTP server if you want to forward outgoing messages. But you
need to configure it carefully so that you don't become an "open relay" for
any spammer who can find your IP address.
You also need to think about how you are constructing your network - the
"bad guys" are getting everywhere these days, and security is important.
Besides, the configuration of all this stuff depends on what your network
topology is.
Don't worry - it is all possible (I'm running something similar here) - but
it'll take you a while to get your head around it!
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Bill Michell
bill(_at_)mics(_dot_)org(_dot_)uk