[TriLUG] E-mail questions

[Christopher Knowles]

As always, you are a fount of knowledge.

One other question... assuming that I don't use the trilug server... 

I've got a static IP that I am capable of name serving... what are some 
resources I can read or use to learn how to setup a full on mail server... 
capable of receiving mail to an address... knowlesc at MYDOMAIN.ORG or whatever?

Thanks again Jon.  

CJK

On Sunday 14 April 2002 08:03 pm, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Depending on just how successful Tanner is this weekend, you might just
> want to forward your mail to the stonesoup.trilug.org server and use imap
> to access your mail from anywhere and any machine.
>
> Failing that, you should simply download the mail to your local desktop box
> and use imap to view the mail from both the local desktop and from the
> laptop.  The advantage of IMAP is that all your reading/deleting/filing of
> mail are consistant across multiple machines that you use for reading your
> mail.
> Read a peice of mail once on your laptop and file it in a mail folder.  Go
> to your desktop and you'll find that peice of mail marked as read, and
> filed in the apropiate folder.  IMAP is a wonderful thing.
>
> The easiest IMAP to install is the U-W version (which RedHat uses for pop
> as well).  This particular version doesn't like to mix mail and folders,
> but that's a minor restriction.  A harder restriction is that you have to
> manually create mail folders from the command line (you can't do it from
> within Kmail)
>
> To install this version of IMAP, install the IMAP rpm and then enable pop
> and/or imap in /etc/xinet.d/imap
>
> You are done and ready to use imap.
>
> Jon
>  --- Original Message: Sunday 14 April 2002 04:02 pm ---
>
> > OK, I have a bundle of questions that I have been trying to answer on my
> > own, but haven't been having much luck with.
> >
> > Let me give you my setup...
> >
> > 4 computers...
> >
> > 1 - Firewall...
> > 2 - Desktop computers, one using Linux, the other Windows ME.  The Linux
> > box is my 'main' computer.
> > 1 - laptop.  This is my computer away from home, and for when I want to
> > sit outside and browse the 'net.
> >
> > desktops are running Redhat 7.2, while the laptop is 7.2.92 (whatever)
> >
> > Currently I am using Kmail to read my e-mail from both linux computers. 
> > My laptop is set to download without deleting from the server... while
> > the desktop is set to delete from the server.
> >
> > My question...
> >
> > I'm trying to move to a fetchmail/sendmail-or-whatever/procmail setup,
> > where the desktop uses fetchmail to get the e-mail and does verious
> > things to it... However, this seems to break the utility of the laptop. 
> > (As I want to run fecthmail all the time...)  Should I use a POP/IMAP
> > server to allow the laptop access?  Can I punch that through the firewall
> > without too much security issues?  Should I use the firewall as my mail
> > server?  If I wanted to setup my own mail domain, should I use sendmail
> > or smail or something else?
> >
> > I've been looking at the documentation for sendmail, and I think I've
> > decided that I don't want to touch that if possible.  :)
> >
> > Anyway, if you could reply with good resources, or even descriptions of
> > what you are doing to handle e-mail, it would be appreciated.
> >
> > I haven't really touched on the whole e-mail processing part of linux,
> > just been playing with the other network aspects of it.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > CJK
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