[TriLUG] mail server

[Joseph Tate]

Good luck.  Setting up a mailserver is probably one of the most 
challenging things I've ever done.  Sendmail is not walk in the park to 
set up.  I'd go with postfix for ease of configuration as well as better 
performance.  Good documentation is available at tldp as well as 
postfix.org.  RH has an rpm for it in 7.3 and later.  If it's just pop 
you want, UW-IMAP will work fine.  Just install the rpm, turn it on in 
/etc/xinetd.d/pop3d, and poke the appropriate holes in your 
ipchains/iptables.  If you want something for IMAP as well, even if you 
only have 10 users or so, I'd go with cyrus.  

Postfix properly configured and all the rpms you need to run cyrus imap 
are available from http://tis.foobar.fi/software/.  The best howto I've 
found on smtp auth and secure smtp is at 
http://howto.state-of-mind.de/index.html.

Again I wish you good luck.

Joseph

mark at thefowles.com wrote:

>Tanner -
>
>Thanks - I am trying to setup a pop3 mail server for the Charter High School. I tried qmail - but I am struggling (never have set up a mail server before) -- I'll look on google (my favorite search engine :-)  ) -- I just want to make sure I have enough information so that I don't wreck the site....
>
>Thanks,
>Mark
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>On 14 Oct 2002 10:40:18 -0400, Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:28, mark at thefowles.com wrote:
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>>>Can anyone recommend a good email server for linux, or a good step by step for configuring sendmail to handle pop3?
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>>What are you trying to accomplish?  Sendmail is only an MTA (mail
>>transport agent).  It only transports mail between endpoints.
>>After that you need some other program for accessing the mail.
>>This can be a pop3 server, an imap server, or even a program
>>(like pine or mutt) that will access the mail file directly.
>>
>>The University of Washington makes an imap server that also
>>does pop3.  It is much maligned, but it is very easy to setup
>>and works adequately.  In fact, it generally comes standard
>>in most linux distributions these days and you probably only
>>need to configure something in the inetd or xinetd configuration files.
>>
>>Alternatively, there are other pop3 servers out there.  A 
>>quick google search should show you several.
>>
>>Tanner
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