Re: Email server

From: Stuart Herd (sherd_at_ca.inter.net1)
Date: 02/03/04

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    On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 09:26:31 -0600, justin wrote:

    > "I have made up the company name abc for ease"
    >
    > I am a total newbie and have just setup a Linux server (RH9) at work,
    > instaled Samba file sharing, interbase, all ok. We have a website and
    > email supplied by an ISP, lets just say www.abc.com and the mail server
    > at the ISP is mail.abc.com. The computer is setup with the hostname
    > "abcserver.abcdomain". In the "redhat-config-bind" program for Domain
    > Name Service, it is all set at the default with localhost etc and not
    > abcserver. My machine is 100% up to date. I have also setup a static
    > IP for the machine on the local network of 192.168.0.100.
    >
    > I want the machine to fetch the emails from mail.abc.com and filter them
    > to different users (ie bob@abc.com, boss@abc.com, etc.). I would also
    > like boss@abc.com to get a copy of all emails.
    >
    > I have read about sendmail, procmail, etc. and see only scripting which
    > is really complicated. I have downloaded pdf's and I am still confused.
    >
    > Is there a simple graphical program to setup email like this as I am
    > very simple??

    setting up an email server is not simple.

    fetchmail to grab all mail from your isp and filter via
    procmail/sendmail to cyrus imap server

    you could incorporate spamassasin and some av (mailscanner) into this to
    create a complete mail solution

    some articles that may be of use to you:

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html
    http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/install-FAQ.html
    http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32735.htm
    http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~mlipasti/cyrus-postfix.html 

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