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    Mail Server - Simple, office located network

    Hi, I want to set up a mail server (necessary parts to send and receive e-mails) between users of a local network. I will not have connection to the internet where this system will operate. I want to install this on one of the Dapper Drake machines and use something like Kmail or Thunderbird as clients.

    Can someone make suggestions as to what software I should use and also information on how to install and configure the system?

    Thanks,

    Ray
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    Re: Mail Server - Simple, office located network

    The best bet will be to install some "mail solution", I mean a program that delivers both a POP/IMAP server, SMTP server, all the usual addons (spam filter, antivirus) and some admin console.

    I use kolab (it's on the repositories) but there are more solutions. You will need to invest some time to work with any of them.

    http://kolab.org/index.html

    Or of course, you can setup everything by hand yourself. A basic installation will need a POP/IMAP server (like cyrus) and a SMTP server (I love postfix). It's harder to install and manage but you will have very fine grain control.

    Javier.
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      Re: Mail Server - Simple, office located network

      Thanks,

      What concerns me most is being able to send and receive mail without an internet connection. In other words, can I receive e-mail messages from the SMTP server without a registered domain name. Do I just make up a domain name for the POP account? How do the e-mail clients (MTAs) know which computer the POP server is located on? etc.?

      Ray
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        Re: Mail Server - Simple, office located network

        You could just fake a domain name. Try something that is not "real", to avoid confusion like company.internal. So the mail addresses will look like "someone@company.internal"

        If the mail server has a fixed IP in the LAN (what seems quite reasonable), just give the IP number directly on the clients server configuration. I mean tell Thunderbird that the POP and SMTP server is 192.168.0.2 (or whatever).

        Javier.
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          Re: Mail Server - Simple, office located network

          Thanks, your comments are very helpful. I will give it a diligent try.

          Ray
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