Hey
I have a few questions I hope to get answered.
I have read allot of documentation that is what has me this far.
I may have read allot but I will aways be a newbie.
Is there a remote program other than VNC that can give me a GUI or desktop to work with. I am finding it hard to telnet in and work on the server when I need to edit documents I can't run any edit tool or Perl config files.

Can I stop and start services from telnet prompt?
(seems so limited telnet)

I have squrrelmail running and the login page up.

How do I create users and user Dir.?
I read there is a tool somewhere in the Dir itself?
Are they created on the linux box itself ?
Then that (account) transfers to the email account?

Can I run a Pop3 server and a Imap server on the same server and user both as well? say "If users want to check web-based or with a client application?"

Do I need to have running sendmail or another service running?
With so much I have read I think I confused myself...

I really just want the basics. I will work on spam assassin and other services later.

Thanks
Later
Jeff

You should be able to run any of these files that you want and edit files too. If you need to run GUI apps then the X windows protocol works well over a LAN.

Yes but I would reccomend switching to SSH for security reasons. See:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/SSH

It depends how you want to set your system up. Are you wanting to have real accounts on the server or virtual mail accounts?

If you want to be able to use a client or a web based app then I would reccomend IMAP. If you use pop then the messages will be downloaded and not marked as read when viewing via the web browser.

Sendmail is an smtp server you will also need an IMAP server such as courier-imap. I would also reccomend using qmail for the smtp server rather than sendmail.

Do you have any good docs. for setting up SMTP that you have found helpful ?

I am running Fedora Core 1
POP3 comes with that out the package.

Do you have any docs. for creating accounts for squirrelmail?

Thanks
Jeff

Take a look at:
http://qmailrocks.org/

Looks good on documentation I see that they have squirrelmail listed,

What about creating user accounts and such?

Jeff

If you want to create local (non-virtual) accounts then just use:
useradd username

utt oh..

What you need to know before beginning the installation

The installation and setup of a qmail based mail server, whether through this site or any other site, is not easy. I would not recommend this installation to anyone who is a newcomer to the Linux/Unix world. If you are such a person, I would STRONLY recommend that you take step back and familiarize yourself with general Linux/UInix knowledge before diving into this installation. In other words, if you are a newbie you WILL have a hard time with this installation. That's a fact.


so ...

Qmailrocks.org Pre-Installation Checklist

2. Any POP service - This includes Qpopper or any POP service that may be running out of xinetd. If your're server has a POP service running, you will need to disable it.

qmail has its own pop service i assume then ?
This seems like a big venture...

any screen shots of how this looks ?

Oh man start all over hmmmm......

Screenshots of what? You can't really take a screeenshot of a network service.

I just did a google search for them.

This seem to work for you?

And you can remote admin the server ?

since I have squirrelmail working do you think I need to do a fresh install that is suggested in the documentation ?