On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:50:45AM +0100, Helena Carlsson wrote: > I want to set up a mailserver on a FC3 system. I have > no experience in working with any mailserver. So, I > like to know: > > 1. FC3 comes with postfix mailserver. AFAIK it does > not support POP3, but maybe it does. Postfix is an MTA - Mail Transfer Agent. It doesn't do POP3. > Anyway, do you recommend postfix rather than sendmail and qmail ? I > prefer qmail because of its complete resources on net. Since you have no experience, go with postfix. sendmail these days should be for people who have a good reason to learn sendmail or have access to a sendmail expert. postfix is much easier to learn out of the box. I run sendmail because I'm used to it and run sendmail at work. > 2. I have access to a registered web site and its server system. The web is unrelated to e-mail. > Also, mail.xxx.com is available. This is irrelevant. > But I would like to set up this mailserver to have pop.xxx.com and > smtp.xxx.com and can be reached via mail programs such as thunderbird Just a matter of setting up DNS correctly as well as a POP or IMAP server. > and also each person be able to check his email by typing mail.xxx.com > in his browser. Do these mailservers (postfix, sendmail and qmail) > support it ? None of those support webmail. That's a user agent. Look at SquirrelMail for web-based mail access. > If yes, what about pop.xxx.com and smtp.xxx.com zones ? It will > created by mailserver program ? No - that's up to the DNS maintainer to set up. > 3. Does a mailserver manage both incoming and outgoing operations > (SMTP and POP) on a system or they should be separated on two > separated systems ? Mailservers talk SMTP. You'll need a separate application to handle POP. The common ones are Dovecot and uw's imapd. They can reside on the same physical server. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
