Easy to use Mail Server.

[jxfish2]

I've been using SuSE linux for quite some time now, but I recently got my own domain name, and I want to setup my own internal mail server.

The mail server will reside on my Linux box, while the email clients will reside on Windows boxes, using MS Outlook as the mail client...

I'm familiar with sendmail, but not enough to set it up as a mail server... ( I actually looked for several hours this evening, and found a great deal of documentation, but nothing that specifically addressed setting it up as a mail server, with pop3 or imap mail clients... )

I attempted to install qmail, but it appears as if there aren't any good downloads for the SuSE version... ( The RPM version died because of dependency issues, while the tar.gz version died because of internal compilation errors... )

Any advice or help would be much appreciated...

 

[aixmurderer]

Postfix was pretty easy to install and configure, qmail quite a bit more involved, and of course sendmail isn't the easiest kid on the block.

The trick is to configure mail to use maildirs instead of mailboxes, pretty simple with Postfix. Unlike qmail it even creates the Maildir directory structure for a user when the first mail comes in, Qmail requires you to do it manually.

You will also need a pop3 daemon which can access maildirs (nu-pop, etc., do a Internet search), and checkpassword for pop3 authentication.

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[bluegroper]

Vote 1. Postfix.
See forum921

 

[jxfish2]

Thanks to both of you... I didn't realize that postfix had mail server capabilities...

Best of all, it's included with my SuSE distribution...

I loaded it this morning, before going to work...

I haven't had a chance to configure it yet, but it did load without any problems, and I can see it, and all of its modules, inside of my Webmin GUI interface...

Have a great week...

 

[rrsub]

I keep seeing that "postfix is pretty to install and configure" everywhere but my experience has been hardly that. I still can't get it to receive mail. I've got a great grasp on everything else but this damn mailserver. I don't want to get sendmail due to the bad publicity, the only book out has bad reviews (but I think I'll still get it).

I have a public server colocated at an ISP. This server does everything but mail. How do I do it????

 

[northgate2003]

Isnt postfix just a MTA ie it only sends mail?

You need to get courier or courier-imap to receive mail methinks..

I could be wrong though

 

[rrsub]

That's what I though initially but then why are there virtual domain settings. As I read through Postfix docs and Redhat docs, you can receive mail to local maildir. You can add POP and IMAP on top of that.

 

[aixmurderer]

rrsub - you need to start postfix as a daemon for it run as a server listening on port 25 (postfix start).

Installed it on AIX 5.1, had it up and running in 1 hour, with some minor changes/tuning afterwards to the main.cf config file.

The worst bit was to find a pop3 daemon which would compile on AIX, ended up using the Qmail version.

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[rrsub]

You know, the command "newaliases" was the key.
Now I'm having problems with virtual domains.

I've got all the transport, virtual set but mail to gets bounced because of relaying.

What that trick?