Mail Server

[gavin.courtney]

I've been asked by a church if I can install them a mail server on Fedora. The mail server would have to connect to the external ISP and collect the emails from the POP mailboxes there, then hold them on the Fedora box so that the admin staff can access, read them, etc.

Can anyone give me any hints as to the software which I would need to install for this?
I've looked into installing qmail and running the POP module which comes with that, but I'm unsure if this setup will allow me to do all of the above or if I'd have to have the server in front of the firewall in this case and have all emails coming to the domain come straight into the mail server as opposed to using the ISP.

Hope this all makes sense,

TIA

gavin.courtney

[mattmattic]

You have several options. I use fetchmail to access various POP3 servers.

[crackers]

If you're going to be having a smallish number of users, qmail is like using a shotgun for a fly (Courier is an a-bomb). You already have a running mail server (sendmail and pop3d), so you can use them if you'd like. I've been using eXtremail for quite some time and it works quite well and is very easy to setup for both POP and IMAP access.

What you'll need to do is have all of the external POP accounts automagically forward their mail to your server - which means you'll have to set the firewall/router to accept port 25 and route it to the "internal" mail server. Or you can dink around with fetchmail, getmail, and/or others to do the "forwarding" from your side.

[tk]

I do a similar setup. I use fetchmail to download and spool the mail locally then access via IMAP adn squirrelmail. Don't remember which IMAP i have installed.

I'm doing all of this on MDK 9.0, though.

KD