On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:31:15 +0530, Pramathesh Ambasta
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ours is a small network.
> I would like to set up a linux machine to:
> 1. act as a local mail server (i.e. distribute mail to and from clients
> on the local network)
I presume you want a pop and/or imap server for your users to be able
to download their email.
> 2. act as a passthrough for external mail - all outbound mail is sent to
> this server. THis server then sends the mail to the external address by
> using the smtp server of an ISP (since we do not have our own IP address
> etc.). SImilarly the server receives mail from outside. Clients on the
> network pick up the mail from our server.
This means that you will have to run a smtp (MTA) server.
> How can this be done?
I have used a RH 8.0 box to do the following things:
The local users were connecting to the sendmail/courier-imap to do mailing
amongst themselves. The sendmail server was configured to send all external
mails to the mail server of the ISP's server. I was using fetchmail to get
the external mails received at the ISP's mail server to put in my local
sendmail server. All the local users were connecting to the local sendmail
server for all mailing requirements. The machine was connected to the
Internet using Siffy broadband connection and was connected 24 hours.
Incidentally that box was also running squid to provide internet
connectivity to all the LAN users.
With regards,
Goutam
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