Panda wrote:
Sorry man but I got to say this first GOOGLE! I mean hell you got a gmail account so you must know where it is.Hi,
I am planning to convert my Fedora Core 3 Server as mailserver like Yahoo/Hotmail. Can any one help me regarding this?
Regards Falcon
Ok now that that is out of the way. Like any project you need some kinda planning in here.
How many users, what are your goals for the server, where is the server residing?
IF you and your friends want to have a mail server that hosts your e-mail for a couple of accounts nothing major and nothing too difficult then I might suggest.
Sendmail W/ SMTP AUTH + Dovecot IMAP + Squirrlemail
These are all standard packages available with. FC 2 and 3.
Honestly you can pretty much run yum and install all 3 and have it running in a few minutes.
after all 3 are installed
From joey bumps excellent tutorial
1. Edit sendmail.cf and Change this:
|DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl|
To this:
|dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl|
Generate sendmail.cf, and restart sendmail:
m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf service sendmail restart
2. Start them "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start" "/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot start"
3. Login with a valid user account to... http://fullyqualiffieddomainname/webmail/ and play around till you get mail to go in and out.
SMTP AUTH is pretty important for sending e-mail unless you want to add users IPs every time they change to your access file. So here is a link to a very good tutorial on how to do that http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/smtpauth.html
Mail to me is the lifeblood of the internet...... If you just "set it up" you will have problems.... but if you LEARN how to set it up you will know what you need in order to make a server run, run well and limit your problems.
Also I suggest you subscribe to the very active mailing lists of the following and people there will be able to give you more details and BTW Apache is needed by Squirrelmail.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail?hl=en http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingLists?PHPSESSID=11dfc5ac3c4f4d66580916fdc4de2600 http://www.clamav.net/ml.html#pagestart http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists
I use these and others on various servers I admin. They are all good or great for some things and there are others check em out you will see there are endless possibilities...... all depends on what you want and what your goals are.
Erin
