[wellylug] Setting up a home email server

[Enkidu]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:37:16 +1300, you wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:01:41 +1300
>Enkidu <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:
>
>> I use exim on Debian. I think that it gets installed in preference to
>> Sendmail on Debian systems. Didn't use a setup document. I just used
>> the Exim docs and man. I use fetchmail to retrieve pop mail and also
>> exposed my email server on the Internet. Worked well but the volume of
>> SPAM resulted in me removing the server from the net.
>
>Spamassassin works quite well, too.  And it's less restricting than
>disallowing inbound SMTP :-)
>
Tried that and it works. I just couldn't get it to work well enough.
Refusing everything with an .exe attachment slowed it a little. So did
other measures, but I didn't have time (or the money) to fully
investigate it.

Cheers,

Cliff
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