John wrote:
Sandy Drobic wrote:
John wrote:
I am attempting to set up a mail server on a local Suse 10.3 box. I am totally lost!! Sorry if I'm being a bit slow.....
You're saddling the horse from the wrong side. The first thing you need to do is to define what services should be available for what clients, everything else will follow that design.
The usual questions are:
Does this server accept mails directly from the internet? - requires fixed ip and official domain name possible but not recommended is a dialup with dyndns account Well, yes I would like it too.... have a dyndns account with an adsl connection...
In that case you probably won't have much problems receiving mails, but to send mail you will have to use a relayhost because the majority of remote mailservers will refuse to accept mail from a client with a dynamic ip. Of course, the server should be running 24/7, and either the server is directly connected to the internet or, if set up behind a NAT router, you will need to forward port 25 to your mailserver. You should also check that your isp allows you to receive/send mails on port 25 tcp. Some providers have started to block dynamic clients from that port (yes, even RECEIVING on port s25 :-/ ).
Does this server provide mail services for internal LAN users only or does he relay for internet users? - in that case you have to set up smtp authentication Internet users....
Do you require Webmail? - that would need an imap server to connect to That would be nice...
Is this a private server only for your amusement or do you want to set up a company mailserver? For learning, with a bit of amusement thrown in... :-)
Yep, it is mainly for learning purposes, also playing with web forms etc etc...
In that case you (at least) need the following services: - Postfix (SMTP) - fetchmail (for polling remote pop/imap accounts) - UW-Imap/Courier/Cyrus/Dovecot (IMAP, Webmail) - Apache (Webmail, Monitoring of Services) - Squirrelmail (Webmail) - saslauthd (Authentication) Take the time to understand the basic concepts of Postfix, so you won't set up the next abused spamzombie. http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html In case of trouble have a look at: http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html Especially, when you have questions: http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org