Setup: Woody/testing noX Several home machines on a home network Behind a hardware firewall (netgear FR314) Running exim/procmail
Back in action.. Being the oldest perl student at ucsb was kind of fun. Final now over. Time to play. I wanted to see a general outline of how one would set up a machine to handle the mail needs of a local home network. I have a sort of bare bones, nox, command line commando machine setup, Running woody/testing. It is network ready and has mail setup for its own use via exim and a smart_host at isp for outgoing but I never set up retreival as yet since it is experimental and actually receive my mail on another machine. I'd like to setup fetchmail to receive all pop3 accounts to the debian machine. I think I can do that easy enough since I have a fair bit of experience with fetchmail. Sort the mail with procmail, again I understand quite a lot of procmail and have used it for several years. although not in quite this context. The things I'm really unsure about are: 1) What daeman do I need to have running (pop3d Imapd...). I intend to have other household machines retreive via pop3 from this server. 2) Do other machine users really have to have accounts on debian box? or just a mailbox at /var/mail? 3) If I have a daemon running, is it possible to setup so that it only runs when a machine connects. 4) How can I bar any machines that are not 192.xxx.xxx from the 143/110 port. 5) what do I have to tell exim in order for it to know to send the other machines outgoing mail to my isp smart_host. 6) can all this be made invisible to the internet, so that a scan will not show 143/110 as running or open? I am behind a hardware firewall already (Netgear FR314) which I think will hide the open ports from the internet. but still want to make all precautions. And know how to setup so that only my network machines get access.