Hi everyone,

I'm still considered a newbie when it comes to Linux. My current project is building a mail server. MY setup is this: I have a Co-Lo server at a friends location and it will be my companies web server. It is running great with Apache, PHP and MySQL. I am also setting up a mail server which will run in-house. I am currently building it. I am also going to use this server as a test web server for building my site before I upload it to my web server that is actually online. Sooooo........ I need to setup this mail server but I am not familiar with setting up sendmail. Also considering it will have a completely different IP and will run on the same IP as the internet all the users here will use I assume the MX Record will have to have a port so my firewall will port-forward mail to the server (I hope that makes sense :¦)

My question is, does anyone know a good tutorial to get me going for this setup? I found a couple tutorials but they just confuse me. Also, do I need a DNS running? Or, could I use a company liek EasyDNS who offers DNS with the domain hosting.

Thanks for your help

(If you need any other info please feel free to ask)

Wes

firstly you won't need any specifc dns at all, don't worry abuot that... I do my DNS stuff via zoneedit for primary MX's etc... easy peasy.

as for sendmail... i'd suggest avoiding sendmail, and instead look at a nicer, more user friendly MTA, like postfix or qmail. sendmail is not fun to configure, and if you do start looking at the others here, and find them obtuse... sendmail is a lot worse! having said that though, most MTA's you install will have a form of functionality out of the box, it just depends what you want it to be able to actually do.

you might like to look at starting off with a configuration interface like webmin, which has modules to configure much of any MTA you're likely to want to have a go at

I was thinking about postfix or qmail but I heard sendmail is better. What would be considered the easiest to setup and maintain while still providing a complete solution. This would be for a large corporation. Currently we have 20 emails and we will be growing within the next year. Also I would like to add a few addons for spam.

Would sendmail be the best to go or should I try postfix or qmail.

thanks for the reply

Wes

I think qmail would be perfect.
Here is a website about qmail that is excellently written: www.qmailrocks.org

calcon

I used to work for a startup company (about 50 people) and I setup exim and it was pretty freaking darn easy. That's my route. I heard good news about qmail as well.

-twantrd

Down near the bottom,it pretty easy;
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml