Hello everybody,

I'd like to setup a mail server on a PC running Slackware 9.0
(SMTP and POP3 or IMAP). This will be my first experience of
this kind thus I'd like to ask:

1. Is there any useful reading besides Mail-Administration-HOWTO?
Perhaps, anything specific for Slackware?

2. Should I install sendmail or qmail or postfix or what?

Any ideas and suggestions will be highly appreciated!

TIA,

big bang mojo,
an enthusiast of slackware
:-)

On 4 Sep 2003 04:36:03 -0700, mojo <muxaul@lenta.ru> wrote:
> I'd like to setup a mail server on a PC running Slackware 9.0
> (SMTP and POP3 or IMAP). This will be my first experience of
> this kind thus I'd like to ask:
>
> 1. Is there any useful reading besides Mail-Administration-HOWTO?
> Perhaps, anything specific for Slackware?

I don't know of anything specific to Slackware. You'll be better off
looking at the documentation for the software you are setting up,
although it won't hurt to read RFCs 821, 1939 & 2821.

> 2. Should I install sendmail or qmail or postfix or what?

I use Exim as the SMTP server & client, along with GNU POP3d for those
who want to collect mail by POP3. Try out a few & see which you like.


--
Simon <simon@no-dns-yet.org.uk> **** GPG: F4A23C69
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty."
- Douglas Adams

I use postfix as the MTA, anomy and spamassassin to clean upm and
courier-imapd to serve the mailboxes. Squirrel mail or an imap client as a
frontend. Postfix is quite easy to configure, compared to some other
software I used. But you still have to pay attention.

On the postfix website (www.postfix.org) is a lot of documentation. The
easiest way to go on a slack system, is to build everything from sources.
Read the install documents before installing. It helps. If you have specific
questions, please ask.

Regards,
Bas

In article <d53a20c7.0309040336.2b35aa75@posting.google.com >, mojo wrote:
> 1. Is there any useful reading besides Mail-Administration-HOWTO?

Try chapter 20 of the FreeBSD Handbook. While not exactly slackware
specific, I don't think there are any differences in the versions of
sendmail they refer to, at least not as far as configuration goes. That
was a great help to me in setting up my first mail server.

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mojo wrote:
| Hello everybody,
|
| I'd like to setup a mail server on a PC running Slackware 9.0
| (SMTP and POP3 or IMAP). This will be my first experience of
| this kind thus I'd like to ask:
|
| 1. Is there any useful reading besides Mail-Administration-HOWTO?
| Perhaps, anything specific for Slackware?
|
| 2. Should I install sendmail or qmail or postfix or what?
|
| Any ideas and suggestions will be highly appreciated!
|
| TIA,
|
| big bang mojo,
| an enthusiast of slackware
| :-)

I'll say Sendmail just cause it hasn't been mentioned. What's left qmail?

Really, just go to the websites and real the install doc's and go with
the one that you feel most comfortable with. There is no fear of
sendmail, postfix, qmaim or exim not being maintained so it's really up
to you and what you want to do. I know sendmail can relay and there are
add-on's for IMAP/POP (never used em').

Nothing slack specific other than the old secure, patch, monitor and
improve dance.

good luck

- --

acqant

What's in your Sendmail queue?

http://qparser.sourceforge.net


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muxaul@lenta.ru (mojo) wrote in message news:<d53a20c7.0309040336.2b35aa75@posting.google. com>...
> Hello everybody,
>
....
> Any ideas and suggestions will be highly appreciated!
>
> TIA,
>
> big bang mojo,
> an enthusiast of slackware
> :-)

Thanks a lot to everybody for the suggestions and ideas!
Thus, I am starting the experiment :-)

Sincerely,
bbm

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In article <d53a20c7.0309040336.2b35aa75@posting.google.com >, mojo wrote:

> 1. Is there any useful reading besides Mail-Administration-HOWTO?
> Perhaps, anything specific for Slackware?

I actually put something together based on my experiences doing the
same thing. http://www.monmouth.com/~tsg/mail-server-notes.html
It may or may not help ;-). Let me know if you think there should be
anything else in there.

> 2. Should I install sendmail or qmail or postfix or what?

I used sendmail and haven't had any problems. I haven't tried any
others.



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"T. Shannon Gilvary" <tsg@monmouth.com> wrote in message news:<ZB96b.40543$Ay2.8011664@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv. net>...
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> In article <d53a20c7.0309040336.2b35aa75@posting.google.com >, mojo wrote:
>
> > 1. Is there any useful reading besides Mail-Administration-HOWTO?
> > Perhaps, anything specific for Slackware?
>
> I actually put something together based on my experiences doing the
> same thing. http://www.monmouth.com/~tsg/mail-server-notes.html
> It may or may not help ;-). Let me know if you think there should be
> anything else in there.

Thanks a lot! The doc looks really helpful.
IMO, a very good thing is that it is _more_ than just
"sendmail-config-HOWTO."

Sincerely,
bbm

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In article <d53a20c7.0309080226.a2d34f7@posting.google.com> , mojo wrote:

> Thanks a lot! The doc looks really helpful.
> IMO, a very good thing is that it is _more_ than just
> "sendmail-config-HOWTO."

Glad I could help.



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