Hi,
ok, lets put things together from the begin:
.) with fetchmail you get the mails from your isp's.
.) qmail is a MTA runing on your linuxbox.
.) fetchmail sends mails to the local MTA (qmail you remember) and qmail
delivers them local.
.) forget everything about mbox - use Maildir
.) set up qmail-pop3d
.) set up your winboxes to get mail via POP3 from your linuxbox and to
deliver mail via SMTP to your linuxbox.
.) setup qmail to route mails (control/smtproutes) to your
isp's smtp-server
for all the fancy qmail setup stuff you should read "Life with qmail"
by Dave Sill ( http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html ).
:) alexander
On 18 Feb, MooNDoGGie iS wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a newbie with qmail. I have it installed on my box and I've been
> fiddling around with it for a while.
>
> I would like to know if this program is suited for my application.
>
> I have a small LAN with a win2kbox accessing the internet through a
> Linuxbox that is masqarading internet to the network. I would like to
> have a central email daemon setup to access email from several internet
> service providers, download the mail and send it to the corresponding
> people on this network.
>
> I was told that qmail and fetchmail were the applications that I would
> need. I have setup fetchmail and it gets the mail from the ISP and puts
> it in a single file on my system. I however have no clue how to make
> qmail retrieve this mail and put it into the mailbox of the people on
> the network.
>
> Also if you want to retrieve your email from qmail's /home/user/mbox
> with an email client, what configuration do you give the client to read
> this mail?
>
> This proberly sounds silly to you experienced administrators but
> remember I'm a newbie with qmail and email servers in general.
>
> Could somebody give me some insight into this or point me to a setup
> that I can follow. I have read the documents and I've been to the web
> site to read that but I can't figure out how to use this to my
> advantage.
>
> Thank you,
> Regards,
> Andrew Doye
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
