"Mail server" on small LAN network

Question

What is the best way to go about the following issue?

There are about 7 machines under Win XP Pro, each has its own email client (Outlook 2007) with own accounts (eg. gmail, yahoo etc.)

I want to combine all those accounts under one machine, set up a good spam filter, antivirus and share, preferebly via IMAP, all the incoming emails with other machines. And all the outgoing mail will go through this "main" machine, through one account but with signatures of those who sent it.

With time, there will be no need in all those seperate acounts, as all the replies to all will go to only one main account. But here's more, is there a way to set up a filter, so that only machine to whom the reply was intended will see it and none of the others will or go directly to whom it was intended. And also have the ability for those machines to forward emails to each other via some internal lan accounts.

And of course, looking for OpenSource solution. Thanks to all in advance!!!

Why, why, why would you even want to do this crazy thing? Just give everyone their own email address. — MikeyB, May 31 '13 at 02:19
We already have a way to make sure mail goes directly to whom it was intended - it's the part of the email address before the @ sign. — Grant, May 31 '13 at 02:25
want to get rid of all those addresses and spam associated with 'em, use one in/out and the rest should feed on it — NickName, May 31 '13 at 02:40
Having fewer addresses isn't going to solve a spam problem. Use Spamassasin or something. — MDMarra, May 31 '13 at 02:55

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 31 '13 at 02:17

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But here's more, is there a way to set up a filter, so that only machine to whom the reply was intended will see it and none of the others will or go directly to whom it was intended. And also have the ability for those machines to forward emails to each other via some internal lan accounts.

No.

answered May 31 '13 at 02:17

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i need a tip on open source software solution to implement this, possibly more than one soft – NickName May 31 '13 at 02:42

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 31 '13 at 02:44

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Go with postfix or Zimbra. And don't do what you're planning. You're nuts.

answered May 31 '13 at 02:44

MikeyB

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 31 '13 at 04:15

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You need an MTA with a bunch of hacks to do this crazyness. Postfix is the way in my opinion. You can set up a lot of things with it. Just read the documentation.

answered May 31 '13 at 04:15

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