[Gllug] Mail server

[Rich Walker]

adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk writes:

> Now I have my SS20 box running (you can read the saga and make sarcastic comments here: http://junkcomputers.blogspot.com), I want to set it up as a mail server for my home network.
>
> My current problem is that I have (for historical reasons) got kmail running on a reasonable but not fantastic Athlon 800 MHz/128MB box and when I run spamassassin (I get a *lot* of spam) it locks the box up - and if I have been away for a day or two it can take hours and hours to download the mail.
>
> In an ideal world I'd go to IMAP but I don't have enough space on the SS20 box, so I want to set this up so that the SS20 box downloads the mail and processes it through spamassassin continuously.
>
> I would also want to process some rules - eg forwarding on certain mail to an extrenal email automatically etc.
>
> What is the best setup do people think? Sendmail on local box to sendmail on mailserver (my preferred solution at the moment)? 

Exim. Much saner to configure, and well-designed for random ad-hoccery
around delivery attempts. I've had it running on a machine with a 4GB
hard drive that was serving as a squid cache as well, with no particular
problems.

Personally, I use amavis, clamav and spamassassin with it, which Helps
A Lot with spam &c.

cheers, Rich.

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