[TriLUG] Mail ???

[Hugh Crissman]

Jason thanks for your help with the e-mail issues. Thank you to everyone
who helped me out. I have a lot of reading and configuring to do. I was
a lug meeting a year ago and you did a presentation on
Postfix/Squirrelmail etc. Do you still have that presentation? My notes
point me to the link below but I can't read whatever type of file it is.

http://www.trilug.org/~jason/mail_presentation.sxi

Thanks,

Hugh Crissman

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 08:19, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Hugh Crissman wrote:
> 
> >So, if I take this approach, where does it leave me in the future if I
> >decide to setup my own mail server and/or use squirlmail/webmail?
> >
> >Hugh
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 23:46, Jason Tower wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>just trying to follow the minimalistic unix approach :-)
> >>
> >>postfix is not what you need.  fetchmail will, uh, fetch mail from the 
> >>pop account and save it somewhere (mbox, maildir, whatever).  then your 
> >>mail client can read it.  i'm pretty sure you can set fetchmail to send 
> >>messages thru procmail, which can invoke spamassassin and do sorting, 
> >>etc.  i haven't used fetchmail much lately but there are plenty of docs 
> >>out there.
> >>    
> >>
> It leaves  you "sitting pretty".  In order to set up the system as it 
> has been described (with fetchmail, postfix, optionally spamassassin and 
> or procmail, etc) you will have done most of the hard work of setting up 
> an email server.  They only changes that will have to be made are likely 
> DNS changes, and perhaps some very minor changes to postfix (depending 
> on how you set it up initially).
> 
> For more information including design ideas, FAQs, etc check out the 
> fetchmail home page:
> http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
> 
> And when in doubt, read the actually quite complete manual:
> http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-man.html
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner