On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 19:04 +0200, Leon Vergottini wrote: > Hi > > I have been tasked to commissioned an e-mail server in the first > quarter of next year. I got this task because I am the only one at work > that plays and have a small bit of understanding of how Linux work. So, > I am on a research spree. I have already had a look at the following sites: > > The Linux document project > How to forge > Flurdy.com > > I do not ask for step by step instructions, although it will be nice, > however I ask that you guys will point me to resources on the internet > that may help me in this regard. > > Thank you very much > > Regards > Leon Leon, Setting up a mail server is a great way to understand many aspects of the internet. I was elected in our firm to do the same thing. It took me two years and lots of study, but it was more than worthwhile. Lots of others have given you advice and I concur with their advice to use Centos 5.2 ... very stable I have used sendmail as the MTA It is easy to configure it to transfer mail to a 'smart host' from a desktop. It gets harder the more pieces of it you choose to use. Make sure you get the 'bat book' Sendmail!!! In my opinion sendmail works much better when you use bind to have a local dns server. You can use sendmail without bind, but you have to deal with sendmail having difficulty being able to identify your internal machines from remote machine. One of the other posters has advised you to be careful of allowing unwanted relay privileges granted to outside machines. Make sure you study this subject well. dovecot has been recommend and I have used it frequently with ease. I have not had the opportunity to install cyrus. Make sure you understand the difference between POP3 and IMAP. procmail needs to be understood spamassassin is great, and you will need to make sure you know how to use a spam filter. clamav is better, and I have used it as a sendmail milter and within procmail. The milter works better. My advice is for you to start with a small steps, and do not give up. You will feel like giving up but don't. Make sure you get the 'bat book'. Good Luck!!! Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
