setup mail server

[Nina Pham]

Nina Pham wrote:

> bryan at redfedora.co.uk wrote:
>
>>> Hi, this is the first time I'm dealing with setting up email server, I
>>> have no clue about how to start. Anyone please show me how to setup a
>>> mail server on FC, or give me links that can help.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Nina
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Hi Nina
>>
>> I've done this several times over for work - what sort of setup were you
>> looking for? For example mine polls a remote mailbox drags all the 
>> mail back
>> then redistributes it and has some forwarding rules to send it back 
>> out to
>> the reps on the road and so on. So it's a fetchmail, sendmail and 
>> procmail
>> setup and all works quite nicely pretty much out of the box. I 
>> documented
>> all my work so if you want a look at some notes feel free to ask. I 
>> was in
>> the same position as you four years back and it does look daunting at 
>> first
>> however all the steps are logical ones.
>>
>> The steps I took were buying the sendmail (bat) book and reading how the
>> heck it worked! Fetchmail and procmail are a doddle to do in 
>> comparison. The
>> sendmail website does have good information as does the usenet 
>> newsgroup.
>> The newsgroup is also pretty amicable.
>>
>> There's also some good information in the RedHat source SRPM's for 
>> sendmail
>> and I thorougly recommend installing that and having a read too. Some
>> changes in the later versions have caught people out with the way it 
>> works.
>>
>> You'll certainly not regret the effort you plough into it I guarantee 
>> you
>> that. The M$ one drove me 'round the bend hence the change to a linux
>> solution. Does exactly what it say's on the tin! and hasn't let me down.
>>
>> Bryan
>>  
>>
> Well,  I want to setup the mail server from the FC1 system, just as 
> experiment for my work, so that everybody can checkmail, recieve mail, 
> sendmail,....from their own windows PC. I also like to have the spam 
> checker functionality, and also do mail backup everynight. My plan is 
> that, but right now, I need a good start which I have no clue. Ahhhh, 
> I went to sendmail.org, but it doesn't exactly show how to setup mail 
> server. I'm a brand newbies :(
>
> Nina

sorry forget to mention that I'm using IMAP SMTP