Fishy Firewall/Proxy

[Slobnak]

Hello,

I needs a bit of advice/help.

After much reading, swearing and coffee, I've fianlly managed to get my firewall/proxy running on my home network ( 2 whole pc's !!!) using IP-masq and Squid I can now share net connections and also hopefully be some what secure.

THe next big challenge is to be able to collect email, user IRC etc.

Starting with email ? What do I need to collect it using my proxy/firewall server, at a guess I'd say the answer lies in the realms of sendmail/fetchmail ? or maybe postfix ?

Any ideas to what direction I should go ?
Much swearing and coffee drinking required me thinks.

Cheers for any help :)

[Pras]

When you say collect email, do you mean connect to an external pop host (like your ISP) and retrieve all email? Or do you want to run your own email server?

For the former, fetchmail is pretty good. Actually, you can use any email program and set it to check for mail every so often. For email servers, etc., I recommend postfix. It's a really good application, easy setup, and easy to use.

You probably need to open port 25 and port 110 for SMTP and POP, respectively.