Re: [Sheflug] Local e-mail service

[Richard <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter

> I have an AMD64 box dropping nasty packets on the floor, and also
> acting as a mini name server, a Web proxy, a portage rsync server
> and a time server. It generates e-mails. My workstation connects to
> it, and so does my laptop. I want to read all my mail on the
> workstation, and I don't want to open any routes straight through
> the firewall. If I want to accept e-mail from my ISP via SMTP, does
> that mean I have to run something the weight of qmail on both the
> workstation and the firewall box? Seems a bit excessive.

Install fetchmail, fetchmailconf, procmail.  

After that you have a choice of mailers....

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMailMTA.html

Exim is easy to set up and use.  You might have a maximum amount of 
time that you want to spend on installing something ?  Postfix is 
good.  For the best use Qmail.  It's excellent.  For gawd's sake stay 
away from *@@??g Sendmail which kills of anyones interest in Linux 
MTA configuration.  Don't forget to install Spamassassin and the 
user_prefs file in /home/peter/.spamassassin and 
not /etc/mail/spamassassin.

There's plenty of info out there about fetchmail, fetchmailconf, 
procmail and the MTA's.  Use Google to find it.  Need help you can 
ask me.


-- 
Richard

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