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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Anybody want a mail server for BL3?
This sounds educational.

> 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).

Can you also just use the smaller BL3 or BL2 mail program?

> 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).

Can it be done via ethernet connection -- ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 on the 
server, and then this is the address of the BL3 computer?  What do I 
substitute for eth0 if networking via serial null-modem cable, ppp0?
Would plip work?

> 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
>
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