email server help for newbie

jlshapiro · 10-14-2004, 12:15 PM

I'm still new to Linux. But I have loaded Redhat server on a couple machines & use them as file servers in a mostly windows network. The best thing about the Redhat OS is it just works & works, which is unlike windows.

Anyway I'd like to create & maintain an email server on a Redhat machine. I have a .com address & a roadrunner business line. Is this something a newbie can do????

Any suggestions/advice or direction to books/articles on this would be greatly appreciated.

acid_kewpie · 10-14-2004, 12:31 PM

yes, a basic smtp server is a very achievable thing. exmi and postfix are generally the easiest popular "full-on" mail servers on unix. the documentation on their respective sites should be more than enough to get you going. When i first moved from sendmail to exim, it took only a few minutes stepping though the config file, and obey the comments in it like "change this to your FQDN"... not that tricky at all!

jitwalia · 10-14-2004, 01:51 PM

It really depends on you what you want to learn n run, I use qmail which is quite easy n simple to configure n use.
i am sure you must have a lot of queries now, here are some links

http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html

If you are looking at ent. production smtp then this might help

http://www.nrg4u.com/qmail/the-big-q...ure-103-p1.gif

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