Home Email server

Thinking of running email server on my home network . Anything I should
know before I do this ?

Drew Cutter wrote:

> Thinking of running email server on my home network . Anything I should
> know before I do this ?

Maybe how to set one up?

:-)

but seriously folks...

try this:
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/ma...er_config.html
(I've found a few errors in this, but overall a good primer.)
http://www.postfix.org
http://www.procmail.org
http://www.inter7.com/courierimap.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
http://eu.spamassassin.org/index.html

the list is virtually endless.

good luck!

-john


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Drew Cutter wrote:
> Thinking of running email server on my home network . Anything I should
> know before I do this ?
>



Best bet is to configure your mail server as an SMTP smarthost to relay
outbound mail through your ISP. This is because many mail destinations
know about DHCP IP addresses from various blacklists, and even though
you're not a spammer, your IP address could make you look like one and
your mail denied.. And hopefully your ISP won't block POP/IMAP
connections from the outside world so you can check mail remotely.

Good luck.

> Maybe how to set one up?
>
>
>
> but seriously folks...
>
> try this:
> http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/ma...er_config.html
> (I've found a few errors in this, but overall a good primer.)
> http://www.postfix.org
> http://www.procmail.org
> http://www.inter7.com/courierimap.html
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
> http://eu.spamassassin.org/index.html
>
> the list is virtually endless.

Nick :
My ISP is using Procmail . I want to be able to use
http://atmail.com/index.ehtml?p=pgp&b=9 from my home email server /
apache web server.

Thanks for pointing me to Fetchmail .

Drew Cutter wrote:
> Nick :
> My ISP is using Procmail . I want to be able to use
> http://atmail.com/index.ehtml?p=pgp&b=9 from my home email server /
> apache web server.

so you just want to get the mail then read it locally using IMAP?

then, I guess just fetchmail, postfix and courier-IMAP.

note that fetchmail needs something listening on port25 (postfix, sendmail,
etc) to pass the mail along to.

Oh..1 more thing...SquirrelMail to actually read your email from the
webbrowser.

--john

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Drew Cutter wrote:

> Thinking of running email server on my home network . Anything I should
> know before I do this ?
>

I've set up an imap server, so that all my various computers and mail
clients can get the same messages etc. Works fine. I didn't bother with
an smtp server, as all the clients are configured to use my ISPs server. I
even have a specific route on my notebook, so that when I connect to my
home network via vpn, the mail clients can still get to the ISP's smtp
server.

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Jeff Breitner wrote:

> Drew Cutter wrote:
>> Thinking of running email server on my home network . Anything I should
>> know before I do this ?
>>
>
>
>
> Best bet is to configure your mail server as an SMTP smarthost to relay
> outbound mail through your ISP. This is because many mail destinations
> know about DHCP IP addresses from various blacklists, and even though
> you're not a spammer, your IP address could make you look like one and
> your mail denied.. And hopefully your ISP won't block POP/IMAP
> connections from the outside world so you can check mail remotely.

I have all my mail clients configured to use my ISP's smtp server. Works
fine. If I'm away from home with my notebook computer, I can either dial
into my home network or connect with a vpn. If all else fails, I can still
send mail using my ISP's webmail site.

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Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong.

To reply to this message, replace everything to the left of "@" with
james.knott.

> I've set up an imap server, so that all my various computers and mail
> clients can get the same messages etc. Works fine. I didn't bother with
> an smtp server, as all the clients are configured to use my ISPs server. I
> even have a specific route on my notebook, so that when I connect to my
> home network via vpn, the mail clients can still get to the ISP's smtp
> server.

My big thing is encrypted email that anyone can retrieve (non-geek)
friend , clients , etc with only a password and web browser . Can be
done from any where , future wireless to retrieve email. I already can
do web base email from my ISP . But its not encrypted .
The thing that get me is that @mail requires your database to be in
raid . I guess I need a extra mysql server . I'm already plan on using
mysql for logs (firewall , snort) , antivirus , spam ,
instant message (?) . I was hoping for one large Mysql server to do
everything since its a home network. Mysql - 1 gb ram , 3 200 gb hard
drive , 3.0 ghz amd processor . Any thing wrong with this ?

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:49:41 GMT, James Knott <bit_bucket@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
> Jeff Breitner wrote:
>
>> Drew Cutter wrote:
>>> Thinking of running email server on my home network . Anything I should
>>> know before I do this ?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best bet is to configure your mail server as an SMTP smarthost to relay
>> outbound mail through your ISP. This is because many mail destinations
>> know about DHCP IP addresses from various blacklists, and even though
>> you're not a spammer, your IP address could make you look like one and
>> your mail denied.. And hopefully your ISP won't block POP/IMAP
>> connections from the outside world so you can check mail remotely.
>
> I have all my mail clients configured to use my ISP's smtp server. Works
> fine. If I'm away from home with my notebook computer, I can either dial
> into my home network or connect with a vpn. If all else fails, I can still
> send mail using my ISP's webmail site.

You can also telnet into your POP/IMAP server from any Windoze box
anywhere.

>
> --
>
> Fundamentalism is fundamentally wrong.
>

Economic fundamentalism is just as wrong as any other sort of fundamentalism.

(a fact that Americans, for obvious reasons, choose to ignore)



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