On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:17:41 +0200
Toma Jankovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> OK, I have to set up Linux server with 3 or 4 client pc`s. My plan is
> to connect server pc to the Internet and to set geteway for client
> machines How can configure server to recieve e-mail from the net and
> to send and recieve mail from client machines?
One sol'n is to have the server collect the mail with fetchmail (config
info provided with manpage, ie. "man fetchmail"), then have the client
machines "pop" the server for their mail, again using fetchmail.
All you need to do is to install the "imap" package on the server so
that it will act as a POP server (like the one your ISP has). You can do
this through the MCC software manager.
I've done this myself, it's as easy as pie.
For sending mail, the server should already have postfix running by
default, so you just configure the mail clients to point to your server
by its IP. It will then act just like your ISP's smtp server. Just make
sure you configure postfix on the server to *use* your ISP's smtp as a
"relay", so that you don't end up having your mail server end up on an
RBL, or open-relay blacklist. This is well documented in
/etc/postfix/main.cf, the postfix config file.
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