From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 17:34:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE9216A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:34:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E9343D54 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:34:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:34:29 -0600 Message-ID: <421232A3.4060008@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:34:27 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren References: <200502160012.22138.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> In-Reply-To: <200502160012.22138.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Feb 2005 17:34:29.0812 (UTC) FILETIME=[9A786740:01C51384] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:34:30 -0000 Warren wrote: >How do i go about setting up a mail server on my gateway machine to collect >and store all email locally from the outside world etc ? > > That depends highly on how your clarify your question. You should certainly be reading a lot. See the Handbook, chapter 22, for a thorough discussion of many aspects of electronic mail. One specific example. I use fetchmail, from the Ports Collection, to grab email for the whole family onto my FreeBSD gateway/firewall at home. It polls their ISP mail accounts every 10 minutes. This computer also runs a POP server, only accessible from the LAN, and the family member's computers grab their mail from it with whatever client they prefer. It gives the appearance of a high-speed connection for POP transactions, when it's really on a low b/w line. There is a lot to learn, though, to attempt to run most MTA's. Unless you've got good reasons (like you are doing this for rdksupportinc.com, your job, etc.), I wouldn't advise running an SMTP server. If you are the "sys admin" or "postmaster" for a domain, give the Handbook a thorough read, as well as Googling for documentation, checking your vendors' site (Sendmail is the default FreeBSD MTA, see www.sendmail.org) PostFix and Exim are two other frequently mentioned MTAs. FreeBSD's mail servers now run PostFix. Their site is www.postfix.org. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey