On Friday 10 January 2003 11:38 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> - 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?
Yeah, no problem at all.
> 2. Any recommendations on spam programs like spamanator?
> Something better?
SpamAssassin (
http://www.spamassassin.org) and Vipul's Razor
(
http://razor.sf.net) are both very common. In my case, though, a decent
number of spam got through. I switched to using bogofilter
(
http://bogofilter.sf.net) and my incoming spam has trickled down to almost
zero! It's trivial to setup but takes a bit more time to get going since
it "learns" what is spam and what is not based on what you tell it.. but
once it has a good database of what kind of spam you get, it is very
accurate.
> 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?
On my mail server, I use Courier (
http://www.courier-mta.org) as my IMAP and
POP3 server. It was easy to setup and handles Maildir mailboxes.
Apparently, Courier can also do the SMTP part of it, but I didn't do that.
For the SMTP, I went with exim (
http://www.exim.org). Also very easy to
setup and has worked perfectly.
> This should be fun!
Yep!
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