A couple fo quick answers below. At 10:44 AM 5/20/02 +0200, Mateusz Łoskot wrote: >[...] >I think that I understand, so you are saying that I can run POP3 on other >that 110 >port ? Yes, sure. But if you are running POP3 *ONLY* for access by the machines on the LAN, then your ISp will not care that you are running a "service". Nor will it notice, if you do it right ... you will set up firewall (ipchains or iptables) rules that allow connections to the POP3 server only from the LAN, not the Internet. (Unless, of course, I have misunderstood your intent, in which case your setup requirements may be quite a bit more involved than I have assumed up to now.)
>[...] >RO> 2. sendmail, exim, or another SMTP server -- as I say, it's been >awhile, but >RO> I *think* fetchmail uses the local SMTP server to distribute the mail it >RO> downloads to local accounts. In any case, you may want this to relay >RO> outgoing mail to whatever outside SMTP forwarder(s) you use. > >Oh, it means that I need some SMTP server for dispatching mails to >destination accounts ? >I use for a small purpose, for example for sending logs or warnings, a >very small SMTP server called sSMTP. I think that it could runs in >place exim or sendmail. As I said, I'm not sure if you need this or not. It depends on details of your setup that you have not described. >[...] >I use Slackware, but it doesn't matter what kind of POP3 server comes >with my distro. >I would like to install the most secure ;)) (Am I paranoid ;))) >You say that popa3d is a good choice ? Well. it;s what we actually use, but only for on-LAN redistribution of e-mail. We've neverf encountered a security problem with it, and I seem to recall that one announced vulnerability was patched quickly. You will need to watch that ... as I recall, Slackware's system for alereting security updatres isn't all that good (compared to, say, Debian or Red Hat), so you may want to join and monitor a general-purpose security list like bugtraq. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
