Setting up a mail server
Hi Everybody, I would like to set up a mail server on Suse 8.2. Assuming that I am a complete idiot, where can I find a good guide on how to do this, as well as recommendations on the kind of software to use. Regards Marius
Hi Everybody, I would like to set up a mail server on Suse 8.2. Assuming that I am a complete idiot, where can I find a good guide on how to do this, as well as recommendations on the kind of software to use.
do you have any features required? read this for example to get familiar with: http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/index.html
Marius Roets wrote:
Hi Everybody, I would like to set up a mail server on Suse 8.2. Assuming that I am a complete idiot, where can I find a good guide on how to do this, as well as recommendations on the kind of software to use.
Some recommendations for software. Personal bias included. You need to have working DNS, "bind" is good. Postfix for MTA. uw-imap (imap...rpm package in SuSE) if you need an IMAP/POP3 server that doesn't require any configuration to work and is reasonbly fast, also uses simple mbox format for folders. It doesn't have the fancy features and speed of cyrus, but you might not need those. Just install the rpm, activate it in /etc/xinetd.d/imap and start xinetd
Just wondering why you need working dns? I ran my own mail server without running a dns server, but I simply handed my outgoing mail off to my isp's mail server. But even if you were going to set it up to deliver directly I would think all you would need is a dns server available to you to do lookups I don't see the need to have a running dns server considering all of the security problems with bind I would advise against running it unless absolutely necessary and even then I would run it on its own server so if it did get compromised nothing else would be. Just my humble opinion. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Silviu Marin-Caea [mailto:silviu@genesys.ro] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:01 AM To: SuSE Mailing List Subject: Re: [SLE] Setting up a mail server Marius Roets wrote:
Hi Everybody, I would like to set up a mail server on Suse 8.2. Assuming that I am a complete idiot, where can I find a good guide on how to do this, as well as recommendations on the kind of software to use.
Some recommendations for software. Personal bias included. You need to have working DNS, "bind" is good. Postfix for MTA. uw-imap (imap...rpm package in SuSE) if you need an IMAP/POP3 server that doesn't require any configuration to work and is reasonbly fast, also uses simple mbox format for folders. It doesn't have the fancy features and speed of cyrus, but you might not need those. Just install the rpm, activate it in /etc/xinetd.d/imap and start xinetd -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Rob Sell wrote:
Just wondering why you need working dns? I ran my own mail server without running a dns server, but I simply handed my outgoing mail off to my isp's mail server. But even if you were going to set it up to deliver directly I would think all you would need is a dns server available to you to do lookups I don't see the need to have a running dns server considering all of the security problems with bind I would advise against running it unless absolutely necessary and even then I would run it on its own server so if it did get compromised nothing else would be. Just my humble opinion.
What is a "mail server"? By this I understand a machine that is able to send and receive mails for an internet domain like whatever.com. For this, you need DNS, not necesarily on the same machine, and not necesarily under your administration; maybe the ISP will do it for you. Also, the mails should be accesible from other computers, using IMAP/POP3. Just for sending mails by SMTP and nothing else, you don't need DNS.
Hi all I realise this is OT, but maybe someone knows the answer or knows where I can find the answer (it's not in Apache docs, as far as I can see). Basically, I'm porting a web site from IIS to Apache. On IIS, all the pages are .asp, but on Apache they'll all be .php. There are a lot of links to the site in the wild, and what I want to do is redirect any requests for .asp pages to the corresponding .php page (the rest of the page name will be the same). I know how to set up a custom 404 error page, but my problem is this: how do refer to the name of the requested page? Obviously I need to know what page was originally requested so that I can parse it to see if it's .asp and try to send the user on to the .php page, but I don't know what server/environment variable contains the name of the page that was originally requested. Suggestions, thoughts, etc, always appreciated. Thanks
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 10:23:59AM +0200, Evan Morris wrote:
Hi all
I realise this is OT, but maybe someone knows the answer or knows where I can find the answer (it's not in Apache docs, as far as I can see).
It is in the docs.
Basically, I'm porting a web site from IIS to Apache. On IIS, all the pages are .asp, but on Apache they'll all be .php. There are a lot of links to the site in the wild, and what I want to do is redirect any requests for .asp pages to the corresponding .php page (the rest of the page name will be the same).
Please read http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html, these documents explain how to do what you ask. Also, please do not hijack threads on the mailing list. Do not reply to some others message when you want to ask a new question. Regards, -Kastus
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