Call for email server help (kind of OT)

[Donn]

On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 17:19:36 David Fletcher wrote:
> IP address you should be able to get something called an MX record to
> direct email directly into your server.
Taking notes... note 1!

> You will then need to get postfix to sort your incoming mail into user mail
> boxes. This again is outside my experience but you might like to read up on
> mail aliases or maybe procmail.
Thanks - postfix can handle incoming mail -- this is news. note 2.

> Try dovecot. 
Thanks.

> Be very, VERY careful about accepting mail from outside for forwarding.
> Don't be an open relay.
A few more grains of gold. I had no idea what an 'open replay' was but this is 
note3.

Many thanks, I still need some more info, but will monitor the thread.

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