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hackmykack

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From: Bombay, India

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 17

Setup Local Mail server

Hi Guys,

Was wondering if anyone could help me out with a query regarding setting up a Local mail server.

I am sure this is relatively simple but I cant seem to find a decent how-to ...

We are hosting our email and website with a provider ...
but the problem is that we have many people downloading each others email .... which basically means many people downloading the same stuff over and over.

Was wondering if there was a way to setup a Local mail server on Arch ( since our file server already runs Arch ) to download mail from my provider and then all the Local LAN PCs could then get their copies from this Local Arch Mail Server.

If all this seems too silly ... please leave abuse .. but not too much

Thnx much ( in advance and all ) guys,

Hack ! ! !

Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 937

Re: Setup Local Mail server

http://www.hypexr.org/linux_mail_server.php
Some dude has set up mail server using arch. And has posted wonderful how to
I suppose it should be put in the wiki.
Happy new year setting your mail server.

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 1,872

Re: Setup Local Mail server

That howto is kind of outdated and sheesh, fetchmail? This ain't the 80s.

A getmail/dovecot combination maybe?

Last edited by byte (2007-12-31 09:54:45)

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hackmykack

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From: Bombay, India

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 17

Re: Setup Local Mail server

Heyy,

Thnx much guys ... shall go thru this stuff to see how its done ...

And do have a very Happy New Year ! ! !

Hack.

hackmykack

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From: Bombay, India

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 17

Re: Setup Local Mail server

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to say that I have the Local Mail server setup running ok on Arch.

I used byte's suggestion of Getmail / Dovecot.

The links that the most useful were :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dovecot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/POP3Aggregator

Ofcourse I did not follow the guides word for word but it should be useful for anyone else to try.

The machine is used for Mail and File Serving right now.
However I have noticed that when Dovecot is running .... Fileserving and remote connections to the server via. ssh or VNC takes a lot of time.
When I stop Dovecot everything works really fast accept mail .. ofcourse

Not sure if anyone has any thoughts on why this happens or anything that might help.

Here are the contents my dovecot.conf file just in case ....

Thnx for all your help guys.

## Dovecot configuration file

protocols = imap pop3
protocol imap {
   listen = *
   ssl_listen = *
   imap_client_workarounds = outlook-idle
    }
protocol pop3 {
   listen = *
   ssl_listen = *
    }
listen = *

pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv

disable_plaintext_auth = no
shutdown_clients = yes
ssl_disable = yes
mail_location = maildir:/home/%u/.maildir

namespace private {
    separator = /
    inbox = yes
 }

first_valid_uid = 8
last_valid_uid = 5000
auth_debug_passwords=yes

auth default {
  mechanisms = plain
   passdb passwd-file {
    args = /etc/dovecot/passwd
   }

  userdb passwd {
  }

   userdb static {
     args = uid=xxxx gid=users home=/home/xxxx
   }
}

dict {
}

plugin {
}

hackmykack

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From: Bombay, India

Registered: 2005-11-18

Posts: 17

Re: Setup Local Mail server

Hey guys ....

Please ignore my request for help above.

I have tried this same setup on another machine and there are no speed issues.

Obviously there is something funky going on here ... Ghost Busters anyone ... ha ha ... yeah < I Went there > ! ! !