[Ilugc] Regarding Running an Email Server using Dial-Up connection
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Mon Oct 22 14:24:04 2007
On 22-Oct-07, at 2:11 PM, Vinayak Mahadevan wrote:
Due to certain operational difficulties I am forced to run an email
server using a dial-up connection. Does anybody have any prior
experience in running such a setup. I am planning to use ubuntu 7.04
server edition. Are there any particular points I have to take into
account while planning this email server
I have run an email server for about 4 years on dialup - and dialin.
The key thing is balancing mails to be sent and frequency of dialing
up. I had two modems for dialin and one for dialup. And perl scripts
to check when there is enough pending mail to justify a dial. The
other problem is duplicate mails - you will be using fetchmail, and
if the dialup quits, you get duplicates dowloaded. You need perl/
mysql db to look after this. I had great fun doing this - and I
suggest you use perl and mysql for finetuning - nothing like using
antique tools to handle antique situations.
Fetchmail is great fun to use - I suggest also to make extensive use
of procmail recipies. The greatest tool to learn linux admin is
running a dialup mailserver.
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kg
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