[ILUG] e-mail server

[Sean McGrath]

<> Does anyone know if anyone produces a shareware preconfigured
<> e-mail server running under linux.
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<Donncha's install-sendmail sounds like the thing for this.
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<> 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.
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<Are you sure you want to use POP download the mail?  If you want
<that to work properly, you'll need to have one POP account at the
<ISP for each user on your system.  You'll also need some way to
<maintain all the passwords for these accounts. 
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<Better to use UUCP (or whatever system your ISP uses for this kind
<of setup).  

   We all know Kenn's love of UUCP... 8-)

   I'm nearly certain fetchmail can do this: get mail from various
   pop servers and send them to the correct user file in /var/spool/mail

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<> It is also to provide internal e-mail in that user1 at school.ie can send
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   aye it will.  A bit cranky though.  On dialing the internet, run senmail -q
   to purge the mailq queue (i.e. send all queued messages)

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<> Clients are POP3
<A POP3 server probably comes with your distribution.
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<Also probably included in your distribution. 

   aye all the nessessary tools are in the distro other than the install-sendmail
  script.  (which is nice, but still hacking the .cf file is faster)

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<Later,
<Kenn 

Sean.
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