[ale] How Do I ...

[Jim Kinney]

2008/8/26 Gene Poole <gene.poole at macys.com>

>
> I'm running Fedora 8 on a AMD X2 5600+ with 4-Gig RAM.  I'm also running
> Oracle 11g along with some other stuff (Apache, JBoss, etc.).  This machine
> is what I like to call my server on a LAN with 5 other machines. Over time
> I've gotten at least 6 mail addresses and I would like to consolidate them
> into one place. What I would like to do is the following:
> Run a mail server by which myself and the other members of my family can
> access their mail each it it's own mail box.
> Run fetchmail which would read all of our mail accounts in various
> locations and then populate the above mail servers input.
>
> I've written and tested a script running fetchmail doing a 'check' to
> determine if it in fact can access out multiple mail accounts.  It appears
> to work from cron and would pull the mail if I changed the parameters. I
> want to leave the mail on my local server so that I can read my mail from
> any one of the 6 machines. The questions that come to mind are:
>
>    1. Where can I find instructions to bring up a mail server?
>
> You distro should be the first place to look.

>
>    1.
>    2. Which mail server is best (ease of use, easy to maintain)?
>
> Religious question. Sendmail, qmail, postfix all work.

>
>    1.
>    2. Will fetchmail populate the input of the mail server or do I need to
>    run sendmail?
>
> Fetchmail an be the "feeder" to an smtp service like sendmail. I think it
can also be a feeder to local mail files.

>
>    1.
>    2. If sendmail is required, where do I find instructions on
>    configuration?
>
> Sendmail is best set up using the distro setup from an install followed by
site tweaks (hostnames, etc.) There are books on all of the servers and it
is mostly a black art. Be prepared to sign documents in blood.

>
>    1.
>    2. Would this need a back-end database? And if so, would Oracle work?
>
> No database required.

>
>    1.
>
>
> TIA for your thoughts and consideration,
> Gene Poole
>
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