In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking. > I'd like (have to) to take over the administration myself. I'd like a > HowTo (for dummies) on the process of administering it. And, I need to > setup a mail server here in the next few hours, which is the *easiest* > MTA? I would have liked to use the debian default Exim but the docs > for fools like me are rather thin, the one I use will need to have > plenty of simple and clear documentation, remembering I know very > little about administering an MTA.
Exim isn't bad in my experience; my personal preference is for Postfix though. It's super easy to use / configure, and it has a generally helpful user community. apt-get install postfix should get everything installed and pretty much working - you should be asked some questions while configuring the package, and that should set things up pretty much the way you need them. There are links to some more documentation at: http://www.postfix.org/docs.html -- No copies, please. To reply privately, simply reply; don't remove anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]