[plug] LAN Gateway + mail Server

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

You might want to investigate Mitel's SME server:

http://www.e-smith.org/content/downloads/

I remember someone on this list using it for clients.  I had a brief
look several months ago and it does everything you mention IIRC.  All
web based config.

If you don't have the required Linux knowledge to pull this off, it
could get quite ugly and insecure.  This list is here to help though,
and many others would benefit from the discussion.  You'd be well
advised to document what you do from scratch to help other people later
on also.

If you want to persist and learn how to do it with a Debian box (as
opposed to SME server), it will be far more flexible and satisfying
IMHO, but that depends what your goals are.

My 2c probably looks like a lot of others:

Debian, Bind, dhcp, Apache, Horde IMP Webmail (plus the rest of the
useful Horde utils), Sendmail, mailscanner, f-prot (virus scanner for
mailscanner), uw-imapd, qpopper, IPTables

Don't know about dial-up control via web interface ... one could
probably hack apart smoothwall/ip-cop's implementation of it and do it
their way.

Ryan

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:20, I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
> Doing some research on the net lead me to a similar request with out a
> solution that I could find. It describes pretty much what I need as
> well.
> Thanks
> Tim
> p.s. I'm not sure about the mail server though. It will be multiple
> email accounts.
> It must be able to provide: 
>       * Mail (IMAP server, and either fetchmail or SMTP client) 
>       * IP Masq 
>       * DNS caching and server 
>       * DHCP server 
>       * Dialup to Optusnet 
>       * HTTP server to local network to allow users to raise/lower the
>         connection > and shut the machine down via the web, with
>         password protection. 
> At 13:57 20/01/2003 +0800, you wrote:
> > I am looking at setting up a LAN gateway and mail server. I was
> > think of using Debian or a Gateway specific distro. The Internet
> > connection is going to be a dialup connection.
> > The things that it will need are: 
> >       * Mail server with POP3 access and Web mail access with folder
> >         support and keeping copys of outgoing messages 
> >       * Gateway for dialup connect that users have control of. i.e.
> >         they can dial out and disconnect on will, preferably through
> >         a web interface. 
> >       * Firewall 
> > The majority of the computers that will be using it are Windows and
> > some will need the POP3 access and others the web mail.
> > Also the Internet connection must only be dialed when it is
> > instructed to by a user.
> > It will need to have a SMTP server on it that will receive the
> > message from the computers using POP3 access and then send the
> > messages when it is connected to the Internet
> > Any suggestions as to the Distro, webmail, and other scripts and
> > interfaces would be appreciated
> > Thanks
> > Tim
> > 
> > LinuxAlien
> > 
> > Riverton, Perth, WA 
> LinuxAlien
> 
> Riverton, Perth, WA