Debian Mailserver
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I am attempting to setup a mailserver on a Debian box. It needs to do the following SMTP server so my ISP can deliver mail to me fetch mail using pop3 from other email accounts Web mail of some form IMAP so my girlfriend can use outlook to view her mail Be secure Q. What is the minimum amount of software I need (I've looked at sendmail, postfix, courier/cyrus IMAP, fetchmail and procmail so far) Q. I have been playing with postfix and I can get mail delivered to var/mail/$user. How do I get it to somewhere more sensible? Q. I've managed to get fetchmail telling me it has grabbed my mail but I don't know where it puts it (it's not in var/mail/$user) Q. I've installed procmail but I'm not really sure how to get it to do anything (or even entirely understand what it's for) Q. At a high level how do these things chain together, my basic understanding is this. Mail delivered by SMTP ISP SMTP Postfix Procmail IMAP Client Mail fetched by Fetchmail POP3 Postfix (via port 25) Procmail IMAP Client Any help would be excellent I've been struggling with this for ages. Dave |
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Håkan |
If you are looking for a different delivery location then read up on postfix using maildirs. It should tell you how to make postfix use maildir over mbox (maildir is superior, I can point you to a reason why if you wish to see it) and how to set the location of a users maildir to there homedirectory or anywhere else on your system in the postfix docs.
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Thanks, I think I'm going to install exim and see how that works for me. If I want to use MailDir do I still store the mail in /var/mail??
Confusing business... Dave |
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