Debian mail server suggestions please

[1toomany]

My plan is this:-

I have Esxi runing on a Dell box.

I have installed Debian etch as a VM.

I would like the Etch VM to collect my POP3 mail from my ISP ( 1 mail address with 5 aliases)and store it for collection.

I would then like to collect the POP3 mail (stored in Maildir?) from the Etch VM using Outlook Express via IMAP running on my laptop.

The research I have done tells me that Exim4, Fetchmail, Getmail and a few other packages will do this.

Are there any recommendations from the gurus that involves 1.)simplicity - I am fairly new to Linux so nothing to complicated please - I will probably need a step-by-step walkthrough, 2.) Anti-virus protection (ClamAV ?) 3.) Spam filtering (SpamAssassin ?)

I am probably asking a lot, and this question has probably been answered but my looking around has got me going in circles so please help.

 

[QatQat]

If fetching mail and allowing retrieval is all you need then I think sendmail would do it out of the box. Configuring clamav-milter to run with sendmail may be a bit daunting though but there is good literature on the net.


spamassassin integrates with procmail so it is irrelevant the MTA. I am not sure, though, whether you can get spamassassin to filter messages fetched with fetchmail. I think fetchmail drops messages straight into your mailbox files, I may be wrong so perhaps somebody can chip in here.
Anyway for spamassassin a few lines in /etc/procmailrc will get you started.
Here is a working procmailrc

DROPPRIVS=yes
:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc
:0
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$HOME/spam

Follow the link below to get a basic configuration file for spamassassin (local.cf).

http://www.yrex.com/spam/spamconfig.php

My suggestions are valid if you don't want to configure a fully fledged MTA in future; in that case sendmail may become quite complex to configure, especially compared to exim or postfix.

Before installing sendmail you must get rid of exim default installation on Debian.

QatQat



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