Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:31:50 +0100 From: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info> To: "Justin P. Michel" <jpmichel@jcontinuum.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E-Mail Proxy? Message-ID: <20030712163150.GA50732@lewiz.org> In-Reply-To: <036401c3488d$3ff86d60$0e0ea8c0@xerxes> References: <036401c3488d$3ff86d60$0e0ea8c0@xerxes>
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--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:49:54AM -0400, Justin P. Michel wrote: > Is this possible/feasible? And, which ports should I be looking at? Eve= n better, if there is a web page with setup info from someone that has alre= ady done this, please forward me the URL. Absolutely, I do this using regular MTA/MDA software. mail/fetchmail is the obvious -- this retrieves mail from remote POP/IMAP (lots of variants) servers and can do many things from there. I have it reinject the messages to a local SMTP server, which is considered to treat the domains as local (this also means that somebody sending mail to a local recipient does not have the mail travel over the Internet in order to be received). Exim or Postfix are good choices, although stock Sendmail will also do the job. One note: you must have a local account for each and every user (I assume you already have this if you are using SAMBA). You could also use LDAP (with Exim and Postfix, at any rate) instead. The next issue is the POP/IMAP servers: I use Courier-IMAP (which provides both POP and IMAP, with optional SSL) -- this is much better than WU IMAPd -- it supports both Maildir and mbox, as well as having a smaller footprint. It is also more configurable (again, LDAP is supported). Hope that's some help, -lewiz. P.S. A final note: if the remote MUA (e.g. Outlook) is not configured to leave mail on server you will not have the backup of mail that you desire. This can be configured, but a better solution would be to use IMAP, where all mail is left on server. --=20 Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jab:lewiz@jabber.org | url:http://lewiz.net |- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/EDf2Itq0KFQv7T8RAllzAJ42AshQsH+s5AcscWfxXI2VkjyOjgCdGiHM hN7rlVbw0p58PoSatZdznwg= =QOwH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--
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