Subject: Re: Mail server
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 02:08:22 MDT
Scott,
The "classical" way to do this would be to use fetchmail to retrieve mail
and sendmail to send it. A local POP daemon (which is probably already
installed with YDL) will then serve mail up to your networked email clients.
Fetchmail comes with its own configuration utility "fetchmailconf" through
which you can define the remote mailboxes that you want to check and their
relationships to local users. You can also do things like choose to leave
messages on the remote server etc.
Sendmail is absolutely horrible to set up - best to use a utility like
"install-sendmail" to do the hard work for you.
Iain
on 6/7/01 6:30 am, Scott Shanafelt at sgshanaf@chartermi.net wrote:
Hi,
I have a linux machine running as a router for my cable modem to provide
internet access for me and my roomate. I'd like to also set up some sort of
a email server on this machine as well that can check other email servers
(my school email, for example), copy it to its server localy, and then i can
just check the email on it, hopefully using a pop email client.
Does anyone know of a server for linux capable of doing this?
Thanks in advance,
Scott Shanafelt
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