[ILUG] e-mail server

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Take a look at my install-sendmail script which configures Sendmail very
easily. It also enables you to send local mail without connecting to the
net ;)
My script won't dial up your ppp connection, but if you know about
crontab (man 5 crontab) it's fairly easy to set up.
I'd recommend:
Tell my script you want to "Queue remote mail" and then write a short
shell script to bring up the ppp connection and run "/usr/sbin/sendmail
-q" which delivers the mail.
You might want to run fetchmail too I guess (my script handles that too
but if you have lots of users you'll have sore hands!)
Do a search on freshmeat.net for install-sendmail and you'll find my
homepage or a mirror (xoom tends to be down a lot :(
Also, search freshmeat for "dhcp" - I found a very nice configurator
that set things up almost perfectly here.. Only had to do a small bit of
editing to get it working.


Donncha

Jim Graham wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if anyone produces a shareware preconfigured e-mail server
> running under linux.
> 
> Requirements are for machine to dial the internet every hour, collect mail
> from a POP account and then distribute e-mail to the users in the school.
> 
> It is also to provide internal e-mail in that user1 at school.ie can send
> e-mail to user2 at school.ie
> 
> Clients are POP3
> 
> A bonus would be to have a DHCP server.
> 
> e-smith's offering is not suitable as it doesn't allow internal machines to
> send e-mail to each other without connecting to the internet!