Hi everyone,
I am a newbie with linux, and in particular mail servers. I would like to set up a mail server handling in/outgoing mail to a domain I plan to register. Can Suse 8.2 pro handle this, or do I need another program(s)? (I'm running KDE with postfix installed and running, but its not doing anything as far as I can tell. I have 8.2 running on a local IP inside one of those little Personally, I would use qmail. Its safe, secure, and has MANY great guides for using it. Only use it if you're comfortable installing software from
box NATs. My external IP is dynamic, but I think I can use dyndns.org to help with keeping my IP in check with my domain). Yes. I had a mail server that responded to its dynamic ip address. I only addressed it by its domain name so everything went alright. I used dns2go, but it doesnt matter because the fundamentals of DNS are same for all of
How would I set the mail server? Do I need fetchmail, or can postfix handle this? Best case senario would be to have mail stored on the mail server (IMAP?!). You dont need fetchmail. Fetchmail is for retrieving messages for one or a few users and putting htem in a local mailbox. If you plan to have your server recieve all the mesages there would be no need because they would be sent straight to your box anyways. IMAP is a protocol for checking mail. IMO you dont need IMAP services, POP3 seems much easier to setup and the default for MANY ISP's. IMAP lets your browse messages by subject while keeping them mostly stored on the server. I
On Thursday 18 December 2003 09:57 pm, Linuxjim wrote: source, its not hard, but it might be intimidating if you;re a newbie at installing from source. Otherwise if you read ALL the readme's that are in the package its sets up very well and probably in 30-45 minutes depending on your reading speed, computer speed, etc. Check out www.qmail.org for more info. If you don't feel comfortable doing this than you will need to ask someone else about postfix and the like, (I use only QMAIL, could you tell?) On a more general note, you will need to make sure you have 2 servers running on 2 ports for email. You will want SMTP (port 25) open the the world so ppl can send you e-mail (FOR THE LOVE OF GOD READ ABOUT OPEN RELAYS OR YOU WILL BE SENDING SPAM). This should be accomplised by postfix if you tell it somewhere in its config, or by the ucspi-tcpserver if using qmail. Then you will need a daemon listening on port 110 (POP3) for retrieving your e-mail from the mailserver (unless you are always logged in locally and dont want to be able to download your mail from elsewhere). This probably is not accomplished by postfix, but an external POP3 daemon (unsure). In qmail this is accomplished again by pairing checkpassword with qmails pop3 server together with ucspi-tcpserver. them. You will have no problems if it is setup correctly. think its a bit more complicated than POP3. POP3 basically says, yes you have mail, ok here it is. And sends you the messages in a very simple manner. (Yes I know its a little more complicated, but thats an overview.) IMO dont worry about IMAP. If you dont know what you need/want, stick to POP3 until you have a handle on things.
Many thanks for your suggestions.
Jim Flanagan
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