Re: How to setup a Linux mail server?

[Edward Dekkers <edward tdcs com au>]

Kevin Kempter 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?

I don't know whether there's a better way to go but this is what I used 
to do.

> 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?

surprisingly enough:

man fetchmail

was enough to get me going on this.

Regards,
Ed.