First time installation of MailScanner

[Kevin Spicer]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:06, Stephen Liu wrote:

>SMTP is to send mails

Thats true, but SMTP is also to have mail sent _to_ your server.  POP3
and IMAP by contrast are for downloading mail from a (usually remote)
server.  A Mail Transfer Agents (MTA) generally communicate using SMTP,
MailScanner integrates with the MTA.  POP3 and IMAP are not MTA
functions, they are usually served by a separate POP or IMAP server.

If you wish to use MailScanner in a 'typical' ISP client server
relationship you need to run an MTA (sendmail/exim/postfix) on your box
and use fetchmail to collect your mail from the POP server, passing it
on to your local sendmail which passes it through MailScanner and then
delivers into your local mailbox.  To scan outgoing mail you need to
configure your MTA to use your ISP's SMTP server as a smart host and
then send your mail to your local smtp server rather than directly to
your ISP.




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