He setup his own mail server on his doze box. I thought to do the same so when I installed FC1 I checked email server.
But I still have no clue what I installed I gather sendmail.
For a newbie is the a good choice or should I be using something else.
This is more a get my feet wet experience than anything else, but I do want to come out of this with some 'email servering' skills and a system that works.
As a starting point, I have a small document to help you: the "Sendmail SMTP AUTH HOWTO". This document is not *quite* up-to-date for Fedora... in particular, you should look for a line in sendmail.mc which contains "conf_AUTH_OPTIONS" and change the `A p' you find there to just `A'. Other than that, everything should work well. You'll be left with a working sendmail installation which can send and receive mail over the network.
After that, just make sure that you have either the imap or dovecot packages installed and RUNNING. Those (one of them, not both at the same time!) will let you check mail from that server too, not just send mail through it.
You can find this doc at:
http://www.simpaticus.com/linux
I would also suggest you do some reading at The Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.tldp.org
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
