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At 02:43 AM 3/4/2004, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Message: 7<br>
Subject: email servers<br>
From: Aaron <aamehl@bezeqint.net><br>
To: fedora <fedora-list@redhat.com><br>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 07:40:28 +0200<br>
Reply-To: fedora-list@redhat.com<br><br>
Hi all,<br><br>
I have been experiencing email problems, I found out from a friend
that<br>
my ISP has changed a lot of settings (due to the various worms and<br>
viruses. <br><br>
He setup his own mail server on his doze box. I thought to do the
same<br>
so when I installed FC1 I checked email server.<br><br>
But I still have no clue what I installed I gather sendmail.<br><br>
For a newbie is the a good choice or should I be using something
else.<br><br>
This is more a get my feet wet experience than anything else, but I
do<br>
want to come out of this with some 'email servering' skills and a
system<br>
that works.<br><br>
suggestions<br><br>
thanks<br>
Aaron <br><br>
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Sendmail and/or Postfix is installed. First, though, I would install
webmin, the browser based linux admin program. It's available in a
no-arch rpm that works fine on FC1 from
<a href="http://webmin.org/" eudora="autourl">http://webmin.org</a> . It
helps you avoid mucking about in the conf files which for Sendmail and
Postfix can be *very* dense and intimidating.<br><br>
I have used both Sendmail and Postfix. I started with Sendmail and then
moved to Postfix for security reasons - Sendmail's security history has
been checkered to say the least. Postfix was written to tighten up the
security problems. <br><br>
As suggested you have to get the O'Reilley book for Sendmail or the SAMS
book for Postfix. I'm sure you can get either up without the printed
reference but I doubt that you'll know much when you're done. Note that
the Postfix book is about a third the size of the Sendmail book. That
should tell you something. <br><br>
Beware that both can set you up as an open relay with a default install
if you're not careful. That means that you could become an outgoing mail
server for every spammer in the world. After you get running your first
stop should be
<a href="http://www.ordb.org/" eudora="autourl">http://www.ordb.org/</a>
to test your install to see if it is an open relay. If it is, you'll get guidance on how to close it.<br><br>
Good luck and enjoy,<br>
Paul<br><br>
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<b>"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, <br>
and we seem to do it about every ten minutes."<br>
<font size=2><x-tab> </x-tab></font>J. William Fulbright , quoted in Time (New York, Feb. 4, 1952). <br>
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