Here's my situation....I want to be able to use my Linux box to serve POP3 email accounts. The reason fer this is 1) My current ISP already has most of the email addi's I want already taken. 2) I'm working on hosting my own website and need to conifigure email addi's fer all that are admining my site with me. What all progs do i need to use and how do i config them. Links to tutorials will be fine, I'm not afraid to read. I just have a hard time finding them myself.

Thanks in advance,
Acid-Byte

ok, i've not bothered trying to do it myself, but no one else has replied yet, and i'm stuck waiting for my QNX iso to download...

I'm fairly sure you should be able to configure sendmail to accept external connections so as to be able to recieve mail form the outside world. You can use qmail or something as a probablky nicer alternative.

if you want to be able to get them from there as well, then you'll need to install imapd as well.

gets a bit confusing when SENDmail is the one that acutally GETS the mail, but it's a case of looking at it from the inside, and you just give sendmail an email and then it will send it internally to wherever it should go.

check the Mail-Administrator howto

I run my own pop3/imap server and here are the
applications I'm using.

For administration and setup I use webmin. http://www.webmin.com.

You'll need a POP3/IMAP daemon and I use qpopper. It supports bulletins and tls/ssl connections. POP3 daemons allow a user access to his mailbox on a particular machine.
http://www.eudora.com/qpopper

You'll need a STMP mail relay and I've found that Postfix is the only one I like. Poor sendmail is just too complicated. STMP daemons handle routing the mail from machine to machine.
http://www.postfix.org

And finally, so your stmp daemon doesn't become a spam router, install pop-before-stmp. This enables users who have authenticated correctly to the POP3 daemon access to send mail through the STMP mail relay.
http://people.oven.com/bet/pop-before-stmp

Sorry I have to be brief here. At work.

Hello all...

Don't forget your zone! Gotta get your BIND going.

later,
jason

I use sendmail. Specify your smartrelay host in sendmail.cf and optionally, a fallback mx host. Then add ur smartrelay host to ur /etc/hosts. Uncomment pop3 in ur /etc/inetd.conf. Then, to make sure noone outside of ur network abuses ur service, add a file /etc/mail/relay-domains in which u put in ur IP range eg. [192.168.10.]. Add a service switch file, /etc/service.switch. In here just enter "hosts files" and "aliases files".
Also add ur domain name and any sub-domains to sendmail.cw.

This works for me, and my Red Hat.


Geeeez, gotta work on my geek lingo

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