Re: E-Mail services on personal workstation

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:01:54 -0400, "Michaël Grünewald" <michaelgrunewald@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

How so you set up E-Mail services for a personal workstation? I
thought that I could find tips my self, but I actually need some help
to get pointers.

Here is the plot:

My home workstation is running 6.2-RELEASE and is connected on a
private LAN. The LAN is connected to the Internet by the means of a
dedicated hardware provided by the ISP (it is a small router that do
NAT and DHCP --- I do not use the latter).

I would like to set up the things so that:
* the machine periodically fetch mail from various mailboxes (I do
this with cron and fetchmail, but I do not hang on this);
* the machine handles local mail (from daemons);
* the machine uses the ``outgoing mail server'' managed by my ISP.

I tried to use ssmtp as suggested by the handbook (24.8 Setting Up to
Send Only) but I am not smart enough (1) to explain him that `michael'
is a local user so that mail destinated to him should mot be sent to
the mail hub, (2) to let fetchmail drop correctly the mail with
fetchmail.

Any pointers for an adequate documentation/tool would be very
appreciated!



--
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

If you're trying to do what I think you are doing then sendmail,
postfix, etc... will work. BUT (why does everyone have a big but)

Most ISP's are going to be blocking port 25, which means you will
have difficulty sending mail out directly from your server to the
Internet. Local mail is not a problem, but sending it out to the
world is usually blocked by your ISP because they want to limit
spammers abillity to setup mailservers that would send out
millions of e-mail messages.

My ISP is Comcast and I use sendmail. Comcast blocks port 25.
But I get around this by adding a single line file called
/etc/mail/mailertable which contains the name of Comcast's
smtp server. I can use my local server to send mail out but
it relays off of Comcast's smtp server. It works fine and
Comcast doesn't care unless I start sending millions of
messages...then they might give me a call or cutoff my
service.

If you're looking for an e-mail client, then I will sugest
the one that runs with Opera. The Opera web browser comes with
a built-in mail and news client which I'm using right now and
it's great. There are others available, check the ports.
.

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