setting up a mail server

citrus · 05-03-2004, 11:09 PM

anyone know a good tutorial for setting up a mail server

i have been using linux for awhile now

but i never took the time to figure out how to make a mail server

whats the best program...
how to set it up......

and let me clarify one thing

a mail server means i could use my linux server to send mail out to the internet with out having to go thru a isp or like hotmail or something like that

and pop3 means i can recieve emails for other people ..... not sure about this one.......

help????

MS3FGX · 05-03-2004, 11:33 PM

http://www.qmailrocks.org/

citrus · 05-04-2004, 01:19 AM

i had errors when i compiled that one....

nroff -man qmail-getpw.8 > qmail-getpw.0
/bin/sh: line 1: nroff: command not found
make: *** [qmail-getpw.0] Error 127
root@slackserver:/usr/src/qmail/qmail-1.03#

not sure why

but is there another one that might work better ?

massoo · 05-04-2004, 01:54 AM

hi,
the best mail server is postfix mta from www.postfix.org
there are a plenty of howtos with respect this mta and very easily configurable also as it is easily human readable. One can easily interface this with antivirus software from www.openantivirus.org or from f-prot which gives single home alone version free and various anti spam tools like amavis, spamassassin, etc
try this this realy works I have currently running around 8,000+ mail baoxes with this setup
regards
shann

citrus · 05-04-2004, 02:18 AM

cool thank you i will try it out later....

citrus · 05-07-2004, 11:48 AM

does anyone like exim??
looks pretty easy

but i have no idea what i am doing
i installed it
now what?
lol

and another thing any good tutorials on exim that anyone would know ??? possibly an ebook cuz i have never used ANY mail client/server before other then hotmail