From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 8:58:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seward.nbrewer.com (nbrewer.dsl.visi.com [208.42.141.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C7D37B401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 08:58:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by seward.nbrewer.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0RGwI948400; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:58:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:58:18 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Installation of a mail server, not mua or mta Message-ID: <20010127105817.B46359@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , chip.wiegand@simrad.com, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <3A72F6B8.3EDEB0FA@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A72F6B8.3EDEB0FA@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:26:32AM -0800 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chip (chip@wiegand.org) wrote: > Here at my company we are tired of having to > rely on our isp's mail server, so I want to > set up my own. I have been using a FreeBSD box > for mirroring our web site (hosted on a public > isp), and told my boss that we can use it for > our own mail server also. I realize I need to > make a DNS change, that's no big deal. I have > a FreeBSD4.2 machine up and running, which has > sendmail running by default, right? I installed > the port qpopper. I have looked at several > sites for info on just where to start, and the > FreeBSD handbook on FreeBSD.org, but am still > in the dark (they all talk about setting up a > mail client). Could someone point me in the Try http://www.eudora.com/qpopper for qpopper documentation. I can't recall if I installed qpopper or a different pop server, but it's very easy to do. You can simply install the port, uncomment the line in inetd.conf (modifying the path to your pop binary), and kill -HUP the inetd process. IMAP is slightly more difficult to install and administer, but both major IMAP servers (imap-uw and cyrus) come with pop servers as well. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message