Re: Setting up a mailserver.. some questions

Christopher skrev:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to setup a small mailserver for myself and my domains (low 
> traffic). I will (try to) integrate antivirus and spam scanning etc. I 
> have a few questions about overall configuration... I'm using TSL 3.0 btw.
> 
> 1) Should I keep mail for one domain local/non-virtual, or is it best to 
> go all virtual since I'll have to do the other domains as virtual?

Go all out virtual to have full flexibility. Alternatively, if you have 
less than 5 users you can just use local users. Using SQL or LDAP for 
users auth will makes things easier if you decide to expand later on.

> 2) I also have a email account with my ISP. I get _LOTS_ of spam but I 
> don't want to cancel the emailaccount. Thunderbird (on windows) is NOT 
> doing a good job filtering out all my spam. Say I create an email 
> account named "pop3ext" in "mydomain.com" domain. Is it possible to have 
> my email server download my pop3 email from my ISP and do the spam/virus 
> scan and then store it/deliver it to the "[email protected]" account 
> on my mailserver?

Look into fetchmail.

> 
> 3) My soon to be mailserver is behind an IPcop firewall (which has a 
> static IP). I will open up port-forwarding for port 25 into the server. 
> Do I have to (or should I) set the "proxy_interfaces" variable?
> 

It matters mostly when being a backup MX, but yes, it's yes correct way 
to configure your server is to have this set to your WAN IP.