linux as mail server

[David Jez]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:53:21PM +0200, Gerbrandt Bouwer wrote:
> "Gerbrandt Bouwer" <gbouwer na freemail.absa.co.za> wrote in message news:...
> > I desperately need help in Linux I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and Red Hat 6.1
> > which one of the two Operating Systems will be the best for using as a
> Mail
  Hi,

  don't mind which system is better. You should use which you like and
know.

> > Server. I want a linux system to download my e-mail from my ISP and pass
> it
> > on to my Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP. And when I send mail from my
> > Outlook Express 6 in Windows XP I want it to go to the Linux system where
> it
> > should wait until a certain time then that mail should get dialed out to
> my
> > ISP. Is this at all possible?. This linux system should dial out for mail
  Yes. You must have configured mail transfer agent (like postfix) with
mail queue and imap protocol. You should preffer SSL imap, it's more secure.
  Then configure your mail client (outlook) for server: smtp sever and imap
account is on your linux server.

> 3
> > times a day without any user needing to go to the system to allow it to
> dial
> > out everything should be automated.
> >
> > I'm not that good in fact not good at all in linux so if possible I would
> > need step by step instruction to do this. I will also need my linux system
> > to be able to communicate with my network and other windows xp and windows
> > me systems, how will I do this?.
  Try install postfix and (maybe) mutt and posting mails localy. Works? Fine, 
configure mail queue and try post mail. Mail have to stand in queue.

  If you have pop3 account, you may get mails from accounts by fetchmail.
If you have many users with one account, you must forward this mails for
localy users on your server. Users get mails from your server via imap
with own login/passwd.

  For automatic getting/posting mails you can write small script. This script
add to cron daemon.

> > or do you think that instead of using linux mandrake or linux red hat I
> > should try something like HP Unix. is their a difference between Linux and
> > Unix?
  Linux=UNIX SVID/Posix kernel with GNU utilities.

  between Linux and HP Unix? Linux is free, HP is commercional and different
system. AFAIK HP has got their own mail server, which is compatible with
MS mail server, maybe is working with Linux too.
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