Richard Bown grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> that friend of my, is wanting to setup a mailserver, on his gateway
> machine.
> I use postfix here, which I dont think has any POP retrieval facilities.
> He wants to be able to run it on his firewall/gateway machine and pull
> all his mail from the ISP's POP server on to it, then POP it down to
> individual machines on the LAN..
> As I'm going to have to go over there and set up, I'd like some guidance
> which packages to use.
Install the imap package, which includes a POP3 server.
Install fetchmail, so that his box can do the POP3 fetch of his mailbox
from his ISP.
And of course install Postfix. :-)
--Dave
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