Around 12:23am on Thursday, April 08, 2004 (UK time), SultanAn3 scrawled: <edited into top-down order> > > 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. > > > > Create a prog. that will scan the messages and forward them to the other > computers. Telling newbies, or even oldies to write a program doesn't seem to be the best answer to me. Use fetchmail to download all messages to one Linux box - the mail-server. fetchmail should put each users messages in a different user account for each user. Use ClamAV to check each message for viruses on the server, possibly using procmail. (I don't do this bit but I do use procmail to put all messages through spamassassin). Then let each users get their mail off the server using IMAP or POP3 according to preference - I use IMAP on with my Linux clients, but my wife prefers POP3 with Outlook/Windows. There are some incomplete, and possibly out of date instructions on my website here: http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/serv.html#email (The sendmail stuff is probably not relevant to what you want to do). Good luck Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Red Hat Linux V_/_ No MS products were used in the creation of this message 10:05am up 32 days, 18:30, 0 users, load average: 0.11, 0.18, 0.17
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