Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:39:01 -0400 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server from Windows to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080310153901.6836e824@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20080310183330.GA50364@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <002a01c88298$aac49930$f800000a@chameleon> <20080310183330.GA50364@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--Sig_/WfatAriQKS2a+JaKkDlgvtf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:33:30 +0100 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:22:39PM +0200, Ivailo Bonev wrote: > > I have a Windows machine that get all e-mails, from few accounts, > > from different Internet providers. I want to setup FreeBSD machine > > that get all mails from accounts and remote and local users get > > their mails from that FreeBSD mail storage server. I don't own a > > domain or MX records. >=20 > Ok. >=20 > > I read many docs in Intrernet, and now I have installed FreeBSD 7.0=20 > > RELEASE, with installed fetchmail port (to get mail from various > > accounts),=20 >=20 > Fetchmail is the right tool for the job. >=20 > > sendmail-sasl port, and dovecot for IMAP server. But now I'm lost, > > from where to start configuring FreeBSD mail server? >=20 > IMHO postfix is easier to set up than sendmail, but the principles are > the same. >=20 > I would make users on the FreeBSD machine for everyone that needs to > download mail from the machine. Use a non-existent home-directory and > /usr/bin/nologin as the shell for these accounts. >=20 > Use the virtual hosts feature to deliver mail for different addresses > to local users. See e.g. > http://mathforum.org/~sasha/tech/sendmailvhosts.html Use 'virtual' for all users, local or not if Postfix is employed. It makes setting up the system a whole lot easier and potentially more secure. =20 > I haven't used dovecot, so I can't help you much with that. If your > FreeBSD server and the windows clients are on a trusted private > subnet, I would probably just use plain text authentication. Setting up SSL/TLS on Postfix is really trivial. I use it myself. Again, it increases the security factor. > > And one last thing, how can deliver all mail messages from Outlook > > Express client from Windows machine to FreeBSD mail server machine? >=20 > You can set the FreeBSD machine as the outgoing mail server in > Outlook. But this might not work, depending on your set-up. If you > relay the mail to your ISP's mailserver, it probably won't handle > incoming mail from addresses outside his domain. Unless there is some weird firewall, I don't see what the problem would be. =20 > Roland --=20 Gerard gerard@seibercom.net Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. Dave Sim, author of "Cerebus" --Sig_/WfatAriQKS2a+JaKkDlgvtf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkfVjl0ACgkQ6DWTaTcTwMmbTQCgxV/mmjcYgK2s4ENn6LWM0vXP P5IAoMA1Nzsq7THHHBWXzPnmQd3KR8gH =/j+D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/WfatAriQKS2a+JaKkDlgvtf--
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