On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:49:30PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: ... > The things I'm really unsure about are: > > 1) What daeman do I need to have running (pop3d Imapd...). I intend > to have other household machines retreive via pop3 from this > server.
Well, you'll first have to decide where you want your users to keep their old mail. Does everyone has it's own privat machine to do his/her mail, or are there times that one is on a different machine, yet still needs to access old mail? In the latter case a pop3 server isn't suited, it's geared to downloading *all* mail and stuffing it locally. To bad when you do it whilst on a different machine:( IMAP on the other hand was designed just to make this possible. So if I where you I would dedignate one machine to be the mail repository, have all users receive mail there and stuff there old mail there too. So make up your mind and use *IMAP* > 2) Do other machine users really have to have accounts on debian box? > or just a mailbox at /var/mail? That depends on what programs you use. > 3) If I have a daemon running, is it possible to setup so that it only > runs when a machine connects. > > 4) How can I bar any machines that are not 192.xxx.xxx from the > 143/110 port. both can be solved with *(x)inet.d* > 5) what do I have to tell exim in order for it to know to send the > other machines outgoing mail to my isp smart_host. you should make it *relay* for them. > 6) can all this be made invisible to the internet, so that a scan will > not show 143/110 as running or open? yep, and it should! You get your mail with fetchmail, so there is no need to have the port visible to the outside. -- groetjes, carel
