"Tony Campisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My email needs are small time in comparison to some of the installs
>out there. I have approx. 300 users on my network (LAN no
>dialups). All of my users are checking their mail with Outlook
>Express from MS. We are currently using Sendmail on a Linux 5.2
>install. The users email settings have them checking both POP3 and
>SMTP on the IP address of the mail server, which is 192.168.*.*.
OK, so currently you're serving SMTP with sendmail and POP3 with some
POP daemon such as qpopper. The SMTP daemon accepts remote mail for
delivery to your users and delivers mail sent by your local users. The
POP3 daemon allows your local users to retrieve their mail from the
server using Outlook Express.
>Each of the users have an account on the Linux machine
>under /home/firstname.lastname. An example of an email address is
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] A few of my users have aliases set up
>in /etc/aliases so that their companyname email is sent to a
>mindspring address so they can check it on their laptops on the road.
With qmail, users can redirect their mail using their .qmail
file. E.g., ~courtney.love/.qmail could contain:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I don't want to make this any harder than it has to be! Can
>someone/anyone please give me some insight as to what I will need to
>make this configuration work for me?
You'll need qmail (to replace sendmail) and qmail-pop3d+checkpassword
(to replace your current POP3 daemon). You'll need to convert your
/etc/alias redirections into .qmail files.
>From what I have read on the mailing list, Maildir delivery seems to
>be the way to go.
It has certain advantages, including the fact that it's required with
qmail-pop3d.
>Is pop3d something I will need?
You need *some* POP3 daemon. You can configure qmail to work with
your existing daemon, or you can migrate to another one like
qmail-pop3d.
>Is syslog and multilog the same thing/different and which one should
>I use?
They're different solutions to the same problem. Multilog also fixes
several of syslog's security and reliability problems.
>I'm pretty sure I will need the fastforward, uscpi-tcp(tcpserver),
>daemontools(supervise), qmailanalog and rblsmtpd packages.
I (obviously) recommend installing using the "Life with qmail"
directions, which will get you qmail+ucspi-tcp+daemontools. From
there, you can add fastforward, rblsmtpd, and qmailanalog.
-Dave
