Help with setting up small email server

[Daniel]

Thanks Lou will try it.

Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kamenov" <phayze at secureroot.org.uk>
To: "Daniel Finnimore" <dan at compsupport.co.uk>
Cc: <freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Help with setting up small email server


> In some email I received from "Daniel Finnimore" <dan at compsupport.co.uk>
on Thu, 22 May
> 2003 14:27:13 +0100, wrote:
>
> > I would like to set up an email server for 20 users each having a pop3
mailbox. To keep
> > network trafic to a minimun I wish to dial the ISP every 15 minutes from
7am to 9pm
> > Monday to Saturday. The mailserver will then fetch the mail and
distribute same.
> >
> > At the moment I am struggling with setting up dns to get sendmail
working. I cannot even
> > mail myself it just gets deferred.
>
> I'm doing something similar using qmail and getmail.
> Getmail downloads all the emails and stores them into qmail's Maildir.
>
> qmail -> http://cr.yp.to
> qmail-howto -> flounder.net
>
> getmail -> /usr/ports/mail/getmail
>
>
> cheers