On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 00:05:45 +0100, paul <linux.new@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi > I'm a newbie and need some help in setting up a mail server for my >local network. i have 5 machines on local network all linked together by >a hardwire router and connected to the Internet by cable modem >(telewest). i would like to download all messages to one machine scan >for virus and spam then forward to others on my network, the messages >are currently stored by telewest in 5 pop3 mailboxes. >can someone please help or point me in the right direction. i've tried >googling but got confused. >p.s. 3 of the machines are windows the others are linux fedora. What's with the .sig? Registering Linux Users is one step away from making them illegal. Anyhow, here's the outline of what you need to do. It should help focus your reading. One machine on your network should be designated the mail server. It should be running sendmail to accept incoming messages. On that machine, use fetchmail to grab mail from the POP accounts. Fetchmail can dump the 5 pop accounts into one account, many accounts, or any combination thereof. Next, how are you going to serve those messages within your network? You can run a POP or IMAP daemon on the mail server and have the other machines then do normal stuff to get their mail. This is probably the best solution for the windows machines. Fedora ships with POP and IMAP clients. If you want it treated like "regular unix mail", then you could cross mount /var/spool/mail (using nfs) from the mail server to the other machines. Then, mail appears to be locally delivered to each machine without having to configure any mail processes on the other systems. So, to focus your reading, start with the man pages on fetchmail, sendmail http://www.sendmail.org/m4/readme.html) configuration info, popd, imapd, and nfs. -- Steve
