Re: [newbie] E mail server
On Thursday 10 March 2005 19:06, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello folks, I'm installing a web server, apache, and nowadays its running quite well. The next step is to provide full email service for those domains (nowaday we have two, zeti.net and kendersoftware.net). I've been googling for documentation about it, and i found some options like Postfix, Sendmail, Fetchmail and QMail (some of these are available through my Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack copy). I'd like to hear some opinions about, maybe someone out there can help me choose a server. Furthermore, I'd thank a lot if someone can provide me a tutorial, docs, etc, on what I need for making this stuff work (I'm looking at postfix.org docs 'cause Postfix seems to be reliable, but the material there is rather confussing...). Thanks for your time. Best wishes, Fernando Gómez. Follow my signature derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] E mail server
Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello folks, I'm installing a web server, apache, and nowadays its running quite well. The next step is to provide full email service for those domains (nowaday we have two, zeti.net and kendersoftware.net). I've been googling for documentation about it, and i found some options like Postfix, Sendmail, Fetchmail and QMail (some of these are available through my Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack copy). I'd like to hear some opinions about, maybe someone out there can help me choose a server. Furthermore, I'd thank a lot if someone can provide me a tutorial, docs, etc, on what I need for making this stuff work (I'm looking at postfix.org docs 'cause Postfix seems to be reliable, but the material there is rather confussing...). Thanks for your time. Best wishes, Fernando Gómez. Well, if the mail is going to come directly to your system, then you do not want Fetchmail. It is for fetching mail from another mail server, and delivering it to your local system. Great for dialup users. Sendmail is one of the oldest mail servers, and is probably the most configurable, but is also one of the most cryptic to set up. While it is a great learning experience setting to set up and troubleshoot, it is not exactly user friendly. Now, when it comes to Postfix, and Qmail, they are both good packages for what you are doing. There have been long and heated discussions about the merits of each. I don't know witch is best. I have configured both Sendmail and Postfix. If you find the Postfix docs rather confussing, you don't want to try and understand the Sendmail ones! As Anne has pointed you to a great source of more information, I will leave it at that... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] E mail server
Mandrake comes up with postfix already installed. qmail is the best. Even yahoo runs in qmail. google qmail or check http://www.qmail.org or qmailrocks etc. Cheers Amala Singh Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 19:06, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: Hello folks, I'm installing a web server, apache, and nowadays its running quite well. The next step is to provide full email service for those domains (nowaday we have two, zeti.net and kendersoftware.net). I've been googling for documentation about it, and i found some options like Postfix, Sendmail, Fetchmail and QMail (some of these are available through my Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack copy). I'd like to hear some opinions about, maybe someone out there can help me choose a server. Furthermore, I'd thank a lot if someone can provide me a tutorial, docs, etc, on what I need for making this stuff work (I'm looking at postfix.org docs 'cause Postfix seems to be reliable, but the material there is rather confussing...). Thanks for your time. Best wishes, Fernando Gómez. Follow my signature derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] E mail server
On Friday 11 March 2005 02:06 am, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: I'd like to hear some opinions about, maybe someone out there can help me choose a server. Furthermore, I'd thank a lot if someone can provide me a tutorial, docs, etc, on what I need for making this stuff work (I'm looking at postfix.org docs 'cause Postfix seems to be reliable, but the material there is rather confussing...). Right now I'm using qmail. There are many people out there who make a 'toaster' for qmail installation. Toaster is thing where they put everything useful about qmail in one easy installation package/howto. Some that are well known are qmailrocks.org and qmailtoaster. As for postfix. I'm interested in learning it. And like you said, the explanation is rather confusing :) Well, nothing to worry though. If there is a will there is a way, isn't it? -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux2.arinet.org 04:40:17 up 7:36, Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Official) for i586 public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
