Thanks Randy, I'll check out those pages. No need to handle outgoing mail, so the approach you suggest would seem appropriate. I'll keep you posted on progress.
Anyone else with a vew on this? Particularly the virus checking stage. cheers Brian On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:15, Randy Kramer wrote: > Brian Parish wrote: > > Advice please. I would like to set up a LM8.2 box to grab the email for > > a numbers of accounts at one ISP, check them for viruses, then store > > them in appropriate mailboxes, ready for a number of W$ clients to > > access using the M$ patented virus propagator. The LM box therefore > > needs to become a pop server. > > > > This can be a no frills solution, as long as it works and is reliable. > > What's the simplest formula to achieve this? > > What path do you want outgoing mail to follow? Can each Windows email > client send mail directly back to the ISP via smtp, or is there a reason > to route the outgoing mail through the same server that handles the > incoming mail? > > If the server doesn't need to handle outgoing mail, you can use a > combination of fetchmail, procmail, and imapd to handle the incoming > mail -- set up fetchmail to grab the mail from the ISP and hand it off > to procmail, let procmail do the filtering (and hand it off to a virus > checker -- I'm not too clear on this step), then let procmail distribute > it to individual user's mail boxes on the server. Set up a pop server > using imapd to let users access the mail in their mail boxes via pop3. > > If the server does need to handle outgoing mail, you probably need a > full blown email server. > > I have been trying (sporadically and half-heartedly) to set this up for > myself. I've developed some sketches (see the following links) to help > me (and then others) understand more about how email is handled in > Linux. > > See: > * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailSketchWorksheet > (accurate AFAICT) > * http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailServerSketches > (possibly less accurate, and I intend to modify these to match the style > of the previous sketch) > > One of the sketches on the second page shows the fetchmail, procmail, > imap approach. None of them show a virus checker. I would be > interested in hearing how you make out, and in any suggestions / > corrections you have for the sketches as you work on your server. > > Randy Kramer > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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