On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:38, Alan Dayley wrote:
> I have an old pentium with Red Hat Linux 7.3 installed. No GUI. Has Webmin.
> Works fine. My goal is to set this up as a mail server here at home. My ISP
> filters most of the spam but I want to filter what gets through them. The
> concept is this:
>
> - The mail server uses fetchmail (or a similar tool/function) to ahem.. fetch
> the mail.
> - A program like spamanator filters out the garbage.
> - The mail is put in user mail boxes.
> - The client computers retrieve their mail via the POP server.
> - The client computers send mail out via the SMTP server (qmail, I think).
>
> Never having done this sort of setup before, I have some questions:
> 1. This server is inside the firewall. I don't want it as an email server on
> the net. My ISP can do that. Fetchmail can handle this, correct?
Yes
> 2. Any recommendations on spam programs like spamanator? Something better?
I use Vipuls Razor. You can call it via fetchmail (using procmail.)
Instructions are on their site. Easy to install.
http://razor.sourceforge.net
> 3. I have not researched yet what apps do the POP function. Is it the same
> app as the SMTP function? What app is a good one for this?
sendmail. postfix. qmail. telnet. a dozen others. see below.
> 4. Any other advice for a first time mail server admin?
I would start out doing 1-3 first, and then work on number 4.
>
> This should be fun!
It is. Until it breaks. ;)
>
> Alan
-dallas
>
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