Hello all, first mail here. Did some checkup in the archives, but maybe
someone can help me step by step for my first big step in E-mail buisness.
I have:
- 1 Freesco server. Not the best of the class, but It was primairy setup
as a firewall/gateway and does it's job without a glitch.
- Extremail as the default mailserver but thats being kicked. Else I wasn't here.
- I have a dyndHs-domain, but that will be DynDNS soon. So when my IP changes
ones a month or so, it still has the right domainname. (Freesco got a
little nifty program to update it)
What I want is this.
I'm co-webmastering an external domain. We can only get 15 users on it
(and pop3-boxes with forwarding). But forwarding needs a user and costs 1
mb. We want to forward e-mail with our domainname to visitors that like
it. Of cource it's multi-drop and it's getting collected on the
hosting-server in one pop3- box.
So the easy explanation is: get all the mail using fetchmail or teapot on
my freesco local server and forward it to the visitors own e-mailaddress.
We like to do it with minimum hassle as possible from our point so there
wil be Perl scripting on the external host and some on my freesco-box for
setting up a database with the forward-rules and the form for the visitor
to fill in.
I like to disguise my Freesco-server as much as possible.
Also I want some checks running like: Is the forward address already in
use (with our domainname) and is the receiving address already in our
list. Some authentification in the setup form for misformed addresses will
also be needed. As it runs I will find a way for bouncing mail or large
(quantity of) mails being send thru to one address.
I still have nothing. And still need to install Exim. I've never been deep
into e-mail configuration. It allready took me a while to set up eXtremail
to be tight and allowing only what I want. At least it handles about 2
e-mails a month so no administration was needed. Only used it for sending
out e-mail from my windows-box inside the network. That still will be the
case. And relaying is not allowed from outside the network ofcourse.
Can somebody guide me step by step in setting up this thing? I don't want
to add users to my system, and it probably isn't needed because it comes
in, Exim needs to look up the name before the @ then checks it in a list
and send the mail (without adding headers) to the e-mailaddress it will
find.
In theory I know it all. It's the real thing I'm finding difficult to
understand...
We expect about 100-200 people wanting this (free) service but it still
has to run when it exceeds 500 users. The server is an old Cyrix P150 but
I won't expect much trouble from his side. There is an Apache server on
it, but it's probably one of the less used servers on the internet.
So please? I'm not very good at linux and try to follow the how-to's as
much as possible, but I've allready dropped Redhat 6.1, Debian and Suse
for being too big and too much overkill for what I wanted for. Freesco is
running since august 2001 without a problem! I like to keep it!
Best regards,
Daniel Zuidema
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