setting up a mail server.

[Steve Searle]

Around 12:23am on Thursday, April 08, 2004 (UK time), SultanAn3 scrawled:

<edited into top-down order>

> > I'm a newbie and need some help in setting up a mail server for my
> >local network. i have 5 machines on local network all linked together by
> >a hardwire router and connected to the Internet by cable modem
> >(telewest). i would like to download all messages to one machine scan
> >for virus and spam then forward to others on my network, the messages
> >are currently stored by telewest in 5 pop3 mailboxes.
> >can someone please help or point me in the right direction. i've tried
> >googling but got confused. 
> >p.s. 3 of the machines are windows the others are linux fedora.
> >
>
> Create a prog. that will scan the messages and forward them to the other 
> computers.

Telling newbies, or even oldies to write a program doesn't seem to be
the best answer to me.

Use fetchmail to download all messages to one Linux box - the
mail-server.  fetchmail should put each users messages in a different
user account for each user.

Use ClamAV to check each message for viruses on the server, possibly
using procmail. (I don't do this bit but I do use procmail to put all
messages through spamassassin).

Then let each users get their mail off the server using IMAP or POP3
according to preference - I use IMAP on with my Linux clients, but my
wife prefers POP3 with Outlook/Windows.

There are some incomplete, and possibly out of date instructions on my
website here: http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/serv.html#email (The
sendmail stuff is probably not relevant to what you want to do).

Good luck

Steve

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