[ale] Sendmail and MTA

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 07:00, jtholmes wrote:
> I want to make this short.
> If not enough details then I can provide more.
> Sendmail usually Xfers to  a Mail Transfer Agent (Usually another
> instance of Sendmail)
> 
> Situation.
> Several Linux boxes in a MS Windows env, on Bell South DSL.
> Bell South DSL connection currently acts as MTA
> 
> Needed
> Ability for all on the Local lan both Linux and Windozs to
> be able to email locally and to the Internet.
> Dont want to use MS Exchange
> Is Outlook capable of talking to an MTA
> 
> Is this a viable solution

Yes
> 
> One Linux box acting as Local MTA
> Local MTA Linux forwards Outbound (not for local lan) to Bell South MTA
> All other Linux boxes forwarding to local MTA
> All Windows  boxes do What?  Evolution? Would like to use some MS product
>   to keep things simple for those poor Windows users.

Use Outbreak and set up the servers to be the Linux MTA on outgoing and
incoming. Setup the Linux MTA to be _THE_ mailserver for the LAN
(supports POP and IMAP retrieval). Setup Fetchmail on the Linux MTA to
get everyones mail. Setup Mailscanner, spamassassin, DSPAM, and F-Prot
to sanitize the mail. 

WindBloze Lusers get to keep their precious Outbreak (I would still set
them up with Mozilla and/or Firefox/Thunderbird to close off the
Active-X infection) and the Linux users can use what ever mail clent
makes them happy.

If you force an IMAP solution (don't activate POP3) then you can also
offer Squirrelmail as an alternate mail access method for when people
are out of he office (assuming the Linux MTA has a routable address. If
not, some firewall rule writing can solve that issue.)
> 
> Thanks
> jtholmes
> 
> 
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