Re: Setting up a mailserver.. some questions

hihi =)

Vidar Tyldum Hansen writes:

> 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.

even if is for few users, using something like postfixadmin web interface
make your life easier..


> 
>> 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.

look into "getmail" =) fetchmail is crappy

> 
>> 
>> 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.
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