Mail Distro Required
 

Hi Everyone.

Help!

I wish to setup a personal mail server from home.

I would really like a small distro which comes pre-installed with a mail server preferably one that isn't bloated out with other applications and is easy to use.

So I need:-

1. small install (as small as possible)
2. preferably imap then I can use roundcube
3. something that uses low processor power as I would really like to install this on an old celeron 366 laptop with 192mb ram I have lots of hard disk space so this is not an issue.
4. I would if possible like virus scanning and spam scanning even if that just means linking to an antispam list.

Is this asking too much does a ditro exist that I can pop in the drive install, configure my mail settings and walk away from?

Or am I barking mad!


Thanks for any help!

Yogiman!

Sounds like slackware or damnsmall would be a good bet for you. Pat (the guy in charge of slackware) still compiles binaries on a 486, so it should do fine on a 386. Don't expect any graphics though with a computer that old, you'll be going command line only.

Don't forget to check out Debian, its one of the best server OS around.

Thanks 4 the reply, I will check it out oh and it's a Celeron 366MHz not a 386 and I have Windows XP running on it at present so a light GUI will probably manage ok I think!

Thanks again yogiman!

Hi I had not thought of Debian, usually use SUSE or Fedora but I will give it a go! Thanks for pointing it out to me.

Regards

Yogiman!

I have merged this into the server megathread