Re: Linux Box As Local News/Mail Server

Jon Rogers wrote:
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Is there something as simple as leafnode for mail?
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Yes, its quite easy, but you'll probably need to use a set of programs rather than just one. I'm doing more or less exactly what you're talking about with the following server set:

- fetchmail collects mail from my ISP's POP server and delivers
it to my MTA, postfix.

- postfix is the MTA, replacing sendmail. Its *much* easier to
use than sendmail, even with the highly obscure O'Reilly
sendmail book to hand.

- dovecote is my POP3 server, accepting mail from postfix and
delivering it to Evolution, which is my e-mail client. It is
running on this laptop. Evolution fetches mail via dovecote
and sends it via a direct SMTP connection to my main postfix MTA.

That's all you need for centralized mail handling. All these daemons are easy to set up and "just work". In addition I added a couple of extras:

- I have the central postfix daemon configured to blind copy everything
to a mail archive mailbox. This feeds a copy of procmail which
archives all incoming and outgoing mail to a set of mailboxes.

- postfix is also the MTA on my laptop and another satellite
desktop machine. These copies are configured to deliver
system-generated mail to the central MTA via SMTP. This way
all the logwatch reports get archived and end up in my
Evolution inbox.

I hope this gives you ideas for how to string these bits together. I found that deciding what to install and how to link them was more difficult than configuring them to work nicely together. It was all pretty easy once I'd decided to ditch sendmail.

However, you may also want to take a look at Scalix:

http://www.scalix.com/index.html

I've not used it, but the spec looks interesting and it would appear to do everything you need and more. There is a free Community Edition available for non-commercial use and to try out.

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