Help with Mail Server on Linux

[jonMEGA]

I need some help setting up a mail server on Mandrake 8.2. I'm using Postfix. I also installed the Webmin administration util. I'm a newbie to Linux and would like this server to be able to relay messages from authenicated users from any where esle on the internet.

Can Postfix do this, or do I need a different email program?

Thanks for the help,

 

[n0cmonkey]

It should be able to do it, but Id setup ssh port tunneling and make them go through that to send messages myself.

 

[Need4Speed]

I'm sure postfix can do pop before smtp, but an alternative would be to use squirrelmail, which is a web imap email client.

This will eliminate the need to relay mail from outside the lan. users can authenticate using apache (i use apache +mod_ssl). Then apache sends the mail through sendmail/postfix. Since apache and sendmail are on the same localhost, relaying is not required.

Thus you can have an SSL secured mail server running through apache and have access to your email from anywhere on the planet that has web access and a browser. Used in combination with fetchmail and you can do some pretty sweet things 🙂

 

[jonMEGA]

I like your idea for using Squrriel Mail but I need users that use Outlook to be able to use this server to send mail.

 

[wildwolf]

Thought about qmail? I can do relaying with qmail for any static IP user I wish...never tried with dynamic clients though...for obvious reasons.

 

[Need4Speed]

Originally posted by: jonMEGA
I like your idea for using Squrriel Mail but I need users that use Outlook to be able to use this server to send mail.

not to familiar with postfix, but I checked google for "postfix pop before smtp" and this is what I found.