From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 27 9:34:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCD737B401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:34:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.177.141.133]) by femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010127173432.TXMZ24800.femail12.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:34:32 -0800 Message-ID: <3A7306A8.D399A72E@home.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 09:34:32 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Installation of a mail server, not mua or mta References: <3A72F6B8.3EDEB0FA@wiegand.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks to me that you have all you need in the server side, that is (sendmail) a way to receive and send mail from/to the Internet and a (qpoper) way to download the mail to the client. If your clients have netscape, outlook or any pop3 compliant client, then you have a mail service ready for use. buena suerte raymundo Chip wrote: > > Here at my company we are tired of having to > rely on our isp's mail server, so I want to > set up my own. I have been using a FreeBSD box > for mirroring our web site (hosted on a public > isp), and told my boss that we can use it for > our own mail server also. I realize I need to > make a DNS change, that's no big deal. I have > a FreeBSD4.2 machine up and running, which has > sendmail running by default, right? I installed > the port qpopper. I have looked at several > sites for info on just where to start, and the > FreeBSD handbook on FreeBSD.org, but am still > in the dark (they all talk about setting up a > mail client). Could someone point me in the > right direction? I would like to get the system > running within a couple days. This machine is > the only non-NT box in the company, and if I > don't show a very compelling reason why we need > it, it will be used as a NT workstation. > Please help, > -- > Chip Wiegand > Alternative Operating Systems > www.wiegand.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message