begin quote On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:27:30 +0100 Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday, 22 August 2003, at 3:22 am, Spider wrote: > > > > Well, I think I'll take this moment to push a piece of documentation > > I wrote a while ago: > > > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/local-mail-0.2.1/local-email.html > > That looks like a very good HOWTO - I was contemplating the building > of mail-server like this: a friend has a small company on ADSL, and > each of his employees connect to his ISP's mailserver for email, even > when the message is sent from the next desk! This is only a problem > when they send big files around the place, but there are other > considerations (of accountability & long-term centralised mail > storage), too. > > It seems like your HOWTO addresses that perfectly, except that you > don't mention external delivery, I don't think. I take it messages for > > "joe" are delivered to local user joe, but for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Yep, Actually I think "joe" will be delivered to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . > they should be handed to the ISP's server, via SMTP..? This is what Jason referred to earlier, and can be solved as this: adding the line: relayhost = smtp.myisp.com to /etc/postfix/main.cf > Presumably there are web-based tools for managing fetchmail & > whathaveyou..? I'm trying to think what configuration my friend would > need to do himself, should a new user or shared IMAP mailbox need > adding. I Haven't looked into that, I'd guess Webmin can do it.. For Fetchmail itself there is "fetchmailconf" (included in the fetchmail package) Well, I think that if its a smaller operation there wouldn't be too much work to setup 1 account / user with one fetchmail /user too. if its larger, well, there is an option for fetchmail to run as a global daemon. I didn't bring that up in the howto since its better for larger setup and I wanted to keep the howo "on topic" for as much as possible. also, if your friend has one server/workstation for hosting email (and perhaps some user's desktop account) you should setup imapd + postfix to listen on internal network interface (but not on the ISP side.. That way things are nicely separated. ) //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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