-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Harry Putnam wrote:
>Instead of having each machine retreive its mail from the internet, I
>want to have one machine do all retreival and the others to be aimed
>at it as there pop server.
They should probably use it as their outgoing STMP server too. That way if
the DSL connection is down, the mail remains queued on the Linux box until
the connection is reestablished. It also lets you tighten your firewall
rules so that traffic on ports 25 and 110 are allowed only to/from the
Linux box.
You'll have to read the Red Hat docs to see how to enable sendmail to
receive/relay mail from client machines on your local subnet. External mail
reception and relaying are both disabled by default.
>So use fetchmail to retreive all accounts. Then set up what ever is
>necessary for other machines on the home network to retreive there mail
>from that central machine.
The imap rpm that ships with RH6/RH7 includes a pop3 server (ipop3d).
Qpopper is overkill for a small network. You should be able to enable pop3
by editing the appropriate file in /etc/xinetd.d/.
There is a way to setup a single fetcmailrc file to retrieve all remote
mail, but I just setup one for each user in there home directory and use
commands like this in a shell script that is run as root:
for mailuser in `ls /home`
do
if [ -f /home/$mailuser/.fetchmailrc ]; then
su - $mailuser -c fetchmail
fi
done
Tony
- --
Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D
AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/>
Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
iD8DBQE8kjlIpCpg3WyUI50RApa4AKDXGIECsVwrtasmSXVfZ1l9L2cpxgCg7Pdq
xGe52N1x8qovCewCq03cxh4=
=bd08
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
