[TriLUG] mail server plus a side question

[James c. Jones]

Matt,

Thanks for the comments.

The ones I have been looking at include most of the applications you
mentioned. It appears that most want to build the postfix application
from source.

Is this necessary? Is there a postfix howto/tutorial that doesn't
require a build from source?

jcj

Matt Pusateri wrote:
> James c. Jones wrote:
>   
>> Good Evening all,
>>
>> I want to setup a mail server. Can anyone point to a good tutorial for
>> postfix? I will be installing it on Fedora 7.
>>
>> side question? What is the "best" way to measure download & upload
>> speeds of my isp?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> jcj
>>   
>>     
> Most of the ones off the postfix site are useful in some degree or 
> another.  Are you putting up an externally visible mail server?, if so I 
> you will probably want to look at a couple of other packages. Namely 
> amavisd-new, postgrey, Spamassassin, ClamAV, maRBL(this one may be hard 
> to find but works really well).   Also look at pflogsumm, it will give 
> decent mail stats.
>
> Ping back if you get stuck.
>
> Matt P.
>