[ILUG] Mail-Server

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:25:15AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) thought:
> On 30/04/09 10:20, Kevin Philp wrote:
> >Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> >>I am looking at centos as the base box.
> >>
> >>Do I need add aything else between the mail-box and
> >>the Netgear modem/router/firewall thing?
 
I use a separate internet-facing mail server at home in a de-militarised
zone (DMZ) off the firewall rather than allowing a connection directly
into my home server from the net.  Email gets from that into the home
network by pull rather than push so the internet-facing server has no way
of getting into the home network by itself.  

> >In terms of software CentOS should have everything you need for a
> >mailserver. Here is a link for setting up a RedHat mailserver. CentOS ~=
> >RedHat
> >
> >http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/email/index.html

I use EximConfig for the Exim mailer from
http://www.jcdigita.com/eximconfig 
for the internet-facing server and postfix on the internal home network
server.  Collection from the internet-facing server is accomplished by
using fetchmail and ETRN from the internal server.

Conor
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