How to setup a Linux mail server?

[Ananitya]

On Tuesday 02 January 2007 00:36, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi List;
>
> I run around 7-10 laptops & desktops at any given time in my
> home/home-office network. All of them are Linux boxes.  I am getting
> overwhelmed with SPAM, I use Kmail and spamassassain, we also run
> thunderbird email.
>
> I'm thinking that the best solution my be to setup my own "internal" mail
> server, have the mail server pull all my various email accounts, then use
> procmail filtering to eliminate and report on spammers. At that point my
> local boxes (or even remote laptops via an ssh tunnel) can get their
> respective mail spam free (for the most part).
>
> I have 2 questions.
>
> 1) is this a sound plan? or is there a better way to go?
>
> 2) If this is a good method then where can I find a good tutorial on how to
> setup a Linux mail server and configure it to pull from the various ISP's
> as well as a good tutorial on procmail?
>
>
> Thanks in advance

IMHO cyrus-imapd+fetchmail+postfix+mailscanner(spamassain,clamav,dcc,razor) 
kinda perfect solution for your need. Feel free to ask if you have any 
further query.

Cheers....

-- 
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	- Rik van Riel on linux-kernel
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