From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: iking@killthewabbit.org (Ian King) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 19:31:19 -0800 Subject: [pups] Totally off topic question References: <10303220031.ZM25050@mindy.dunnington.u-net.com> Message-ID: <000c01c2f023$80a2cdf0$7f0010ac@pepelepew> Yup. I used to do that, but had an older version of sendmail and got 'co-opted' as a relay host for a spammer. :-( But the Linux distribution included a pop3 server out of the box, and my Windows machines were able to connect to it just fine. FWIW: rather than update sendmail and hack another .cf, I bought a Windows-based mail server from a company called True North Software (www.tnsoft.com), and I'm running it on Windows 2000. It also provides a POP3 server that the other machines access (so my family can have email, too), and is a complete no-brainer to administer. Once upon a time I thought it was fun to administer a mail server; now I really appreciate this 'hands-off' solution. :-) OK, I paid $150 for a piece of software, but when I consider the value (to me) of my free time, that's chump change.... Instead, I use my free time to hack 2.11BSD and UNIX v6! :-) Cheers -- Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Turnbull" To: "Robin Birch" ; Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [pups] Totally off topic question > On Mar 21, 23:04, Robin Birch wrote: > > > I am probably going to get a broadband connection to wherever I end > up. > > I will then network all of the various boxes together and connect > > everything (including the PDP) to the Internet. I intend having one > box > > set up as a server > [...] > > In case the above seems stupid the idea is to take all email through > a > > server, weed out all incoming rubbish, and route it to various > > individual's (partner, daughter etc.) PCs. > > This is exactly what I do, though I have the sending and receiving > sides of the email equation separate. I have one machine that acts as > a mail hub. It runs sendmail with a custom sendmail.cf which is > capable of delivering internal mail either to /var/mail, which is then > exported to other machines, or via UUCP or SMTP to other machines. It > also batches up outgoing mail and sends it to my ISP's mail server > ("Smart Host") at specific times of the day (mine's not an always-on > connection). > > All the other machines either use UUCP, or use sendmail with the > "nullclient" .cf file, to send mail to my hub machine. No reason why > the hub couldn't run a POP3 server for the benefit of Windoze PCs as > well, but I've never felt the need :-) If you go that route, I'd > suggest you think about IMAP rather than POP, though. As far as > getting mail from my ISP, I use fetchmail -- but if you do this, be > sure that your ISP puts something in the headers that makes it easy for > fetchmail to tell which user it's really for (don't forget about > mailing lists), and that you have a catchall rule to handle mail you > didn't think of. > > If you have an always-on connection, you could have your DNS MX > record(s) set to point to your hub machine, and needn't use fetchmail. > However, if you do that, be sure to set up sendmail with anti-relaying > and all the proper security patches. > > > > -- > Pete Peter Turnbull > Network Manager > University of York > _______________________________________________ > PUPS mailing list > PUPS at minnie.tuhs.org > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/pups