Mail servers

Hi Arron,

I've got a q for you, hopefully you can shed some light my way on how to
get my home system working like you described. I've got the following on my
home network; 1 win2k server, which for a long time has been my gateway to my
cable modem using NAT.

I have 3 win2k pro machines:

Kekatz: Scanning station sharing a deskjet 5500 inkjet printer
Nutron: MP3/Gaming machine
Armada2k: Wireless notebook, mobile DJ machine for the road.

Recently I've installed my first jaunt into the Linux world, running an older
AMD K6-400Mhz w/ 128mb ram and 4GB storage. RH 6.2 (because it's all I had in
my CD collection).

I'm interested in building this linux machine to be the email gateway for my
network. I have my local ISP mail account, hotmail, and have a domiain name
registered, but not using it right now, hawkwynd.com.

Perhaps you can point me to some resources I can 'bone' up on to get my linux
machine to be my mail server, as well, I'd like to know more about filtering
the tons of spam I get all the time from those Viagara distributors..

Any info you can provide is appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott Fleming

Arron wrote:

> I have a simular setup, with some add ons. I have high speed internet, linux
> box (amd 333, 64 megs ram, you dont need much to make a dedicated server)
> thats the firewall / masqurade to the rest of my house, with a dynamic dns
> ip for a webpage, email server with fetchmail that gets all my email and
> hotmail accounts sorts it, then i use a imap server to get to it from
> windows/or whatever and it stays on the server (very convient) and a online
> www mail (on the www server) so i can read all the same mail on the road and
> send it as well. And a webcam just for kicks. There is a couple other things
> on it for niceness (windows shares etc) as well. Been running for a couple
> years now and its great! Let me know if you need any ideas/help :-)
>
> Arron
>

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> I'm interested in building this linux machine to be the email gateway for my
> network. I have my local ISP mail account, hotmail, and have a domiain name
> registered, but not using it right now, hawkwynd.com.

Make sure your ISP register the domain for forward and reverse lookup.

>
> Perhaps you can point me to some resources I can 'bone' up on to get my linux

Download docs and readme for mail servers, for example: sendmail,
postfix and exim.

> machine to be my mail server, as well, I'd like to know more about filtering
> the tons of spam I get all the time from those Viagara distributors..

Block all mail hosts on cable and dsl. We cut off more than half of
our daily allowance of spams. This will also block your potential
mail server if you don't register it right.

Post on newsgroups with rotating domains and drop them after a while.
Most of our spams come from posting such as this anyway.

>
> Any info you can provide is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott Fleming
>
> Arron wrote:
>
> > I have a simular setup, with some add ons. I have high speed internet, linux
> > box (amd 333, 64 megs ram, you dont need much to make a dedicated server)
> > thats the firewall / masqurade to the rest of my house, with a dynamic dns
> > ip for a webpage, email server with fetchmail that gets all my email and
> > hotmail accounts sorts it, then i use a imap server to get to it from
> > windows/or whatever and it stays on the server (very convient) and a online
> > www mail (on the www server) so i can read all the same mail on the road and
> > send it as well. And a webcam just for kicks. There is a couple other things
> > on it for niceness (windows shares etc) as well. Been running for a couple
> > years now and its great! Let me know if you need any ideas/help :-)
> >
> > Arron
> >