How to setup a Linux mail server?

[Guillermo Garron]

On 1/1/07, Kevin Kempter <kevin at kevinkempterllc.com> wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> I run around 7-10 laptops & desktops at any given time in my home/home-office
> network. All of them are Linux boxes.  I am getting overwhelmed with SPAM, I
> use Kmail and spamassassain, we also run thunderbird email.
>
> I'm thinking that the best solution my be to setup my own "internal" mail
> server, have the mail server pull all my various email accounts, then use
> procmail filtering to eliminate and report on spammers. At that point my
> local boxes (or even remote laptops via an ssh tunnel) can get their
> respective mail spam free (for the most part).
>
> I have 2 questions.
>
> 1) is this a sound plan? or is there a better way to go?
>
> 2) If this is a good method then where can I find a good tutorial on how to
> setup a Linux mail server and configure it to pull from the various ISP's as
> well as a good tutorial on procmail?

http://www.escomposlinux.org/lfs-es/recetas/postfix_fetchmail_procmail.html
It is in spanish, hope it helps.


Guillermo Garron
"Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
(Using FC6, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06)
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