[Gllug] Mail server

[adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk]

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)? 

Is procmail the thing to use to implement the mail forwarding?

Or sendmail interacting with pop3?

Or do people think there are better/more appropriate MTAs? (No religious wars please)

Any thoughts welcome.

Adrian

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug