From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 15:44:36 2002 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 09FDC37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:44:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-int-01.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp-int-01.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15C1E43E8A for ; Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:44:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: (qmail 5408 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2002 23:44:22 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-135-94.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO default) (209.166.135.94) by smtp-int-01.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 9 Nov 2002 23:44:22 -0000 From: "doug reynolds" To: "Peter Jamrisko" , "Ruben de Groot" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 18:44:13 -0500 X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2661) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20021108105259.GA68269@ei.bzerk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Mail server Message-Id: <20021109234434.15C1E43E8A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 11:52:59 +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > >Hi Peter, > >On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:57:51AM +0100, Peter Jamrisko typed: >> Hello! >> >> My name is Peter Jamrisko and I'm from Slovakia. In network with 10 >> computers I already installed FreeBSD release 4.6. I need help (how >> to) to install MAIL SERVER: > >What exactly do you want your "MAIL SERVER" to do? >How will the 10 computers on your network be accessing the server >(pop3, imap, or just telnet/ssh in and read mail locally) >Note that sendmail (or postfix, for that matter) is just an MTA. It >will not do pop3 or imap. For these you'll have to install the >corresponding programs, e.g. qpopper and imap-uw. > >> 1. On this network without connection to Internet (only in local >> network), > >Start by setting up mailboxes on the FreeBSD server. The simplest way >of doing this is by just creating the users with adduser. >Since sendmail is allready running you can without further configuration >send local mail between those users. >You can install qpopper (pkg_add -r qpopper) to let your WinXP clients >access these mailboxes. just for a note, you might try courier-imap; it has imap and pop3 built in.. I also noticed that courier's pop3d is about 4x faster than qpopper on a LAN.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message