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Anybody want a mail server for BL3?

I've got SMTPd and POP3d running on BL3.  It accepts 
emails from sylpheed (or other mail client) and stores 
them in the appropriate user's mailbox until he gets
them (using sylpheed or similar).

I've got it configured solely for local use (it does
not forward mail to other SMTP servers); however, it's 
a standard mail server (qmail) so you could configure
it to do anything the big mail servers do.  There's a
huge amount of documentation available about qmail.

If anybody's interested, I'll put together a pre-
configured package.  All you need to do is pkg, adduser, 
start-mail.  Then, on the other computer (even a Windows
computer), you put the address of the BL3 computer into
the SMTP and POP3 server fields.  Address emails to:
username AT mail.local (the same username you used for the
adduser command on the mail server).

This sort of local mail server could be useful for a work-
place intranet, or for teaching beginners to use email, 
or for testing the functionality of email clients.  

Anybody want in a copy?

Cheers,
Steven