On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:06AM +1300, Roland Hill wrote:
> My simple peer to peer network consists of 1 x RH7.3 box and 2 x Win98 boxes. SAMBA
>is configured and operational.
>
> I have a dial up, single account with my ISP. Simplistically, I would like to
>receive email, filter the content, then direct the email to the end user based on the
>filtering rules. I would also like to be able send email "internally" from user to
>user (my wife & I may never speak again!!).
>
> I have done some research and I think the following, once configured, will work, but
>as Linux is so configurable, advice from the List would be appreciated.
>
> Pieces to my puzzle as I see it are:
>
> -Diald to have dial on demand functionality with the modem
> -Fetchmail to get the mail
> -MTA (sendmail, postfix, qmail etc) to deliver
> -Promail to do the filtering
> -qpopper to allow the win box users to receive the messages
>
> Again, input on the "architecture" would be appreciated. If some applications are
>more new user friendly than others then please advise. If there are HOW-to's (I have
>some already), then kick me in that direction too.
I don't have any experience with diald so I'll avoid that step. My home
setup is permanent and I grab e-mail from both my local server as well
as my ISPs.
- fetchmail on the Linux system gets the mail from the ISP. I schedule
this via cron.
- MTA (sendmail in my case)
- Fetchmail can automatically kick things over to sendmail
- Sendmail automatically runs procmail
- Procmail does my filtering.
- On the Windows desktops I use Eudora (POP3) and OE (Imap). My wife's
system is Eudora with POP3 (Eudora is a great POP client but a shitty
IMAP client). I use OE for IMAP (I'd use Eudora if it could). My
reason for IMAP is that I read my mail both from Linux via ssh and
from my XP desktop. With procmail, my mailing list e-mail is automatically
filed into folders - something that works with IMAP but not POP3.
On my Linux system, I run my DNS and time server. Sendmail is
configured to allow relaying while the network is down so that we can
"send" e-mail if my cable connection is unavailable - sendmail nicely
delivers the mail with the link comes back up. This would work for you
- just have sendmail process the queue in your ifup script.
Cheers,
.../Ed
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