[H-GEN] Mail setup

[Michael Anthon]

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> So far I have worked out:
> Fetchmail to go out and get their mail.
> procmail and spam assassin to sort their mail.
> sendmail to forward the mail from the linux box to the ISP SMTP servers.
All good, I use exim as the MTA, but the choice of MTA is almost as likely
to cause a Jihad as the choice of text editors....

> The problems I am having is what program do I need to setup on the server
so that
> the workstations can access mail using IMAP?

I have set up courier imap here and it works rather well for my purposes.  I
basically do exactly what you are wanting.  fetchmail to get all my mail
here, exim to deliver it locally, procmail to sort/filter into my Maildir
mail folders then courier imap to provide imap access to it all

> What program to I use to act as a SMTP server for the local clients.
Sendmail...

> The other thing to consider is how do I configure these so that it works
something like this
> 1. Domain is configured to be xxxx.bogus
> 2. Local user 1 (LU1) sends mail to LU2 - mail server just passes it
straight over to LU2
> 3. LU1 sends mail to external address - mail server changes addresses
(from and reply to)
> from LU1 at xxxx.bogus to LU1 at xxxx.com.au

You can use your real addresses.  As long as sendmail believes that
addresses in that domain are to be delivered locally then that is what it
will do with them.  Everything else should be delivered normally.

Cheers
Michael


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