I need to make a Linux Mail server

[Maetryx]

Maetryx, here. I've been tasked with building a linux mail server for work, but I'm new to the linux world. Can anyone point me to a web page, book, magazine, or whatever that would be of use to a newbie like me?

I'm familiar with concepts like SMTP and POP3 and clients and so forth, but I can't seem to find anything about configuring linux to act as a good POP3 or IMAP server.

 

[doug]

Searching Metacrawler for linux pop gave a bunch of hits:

Installing a POP Daemon on Red Hat Linux
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue50/tag/48.html

Setting Up a PPP/POP Dial-in Server USING Red Hat Linux 5.1
http://www.kernelnotes.org/lg/issue36/ali.html


Also ran into:
An Overview of Linux Mail Software
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue56/dennis.html

 

[goldboyd]

http://www.qmail.org/

http://www.sendmail.org/

 

[Maetryx]

Thanks. I got the IMAP package installed, and I can see that it is working when I telnet locahost 110.

 

[goldboyd]

imap is actually port 143. 110 is pop3

 

[Pirate Roberts]

Hi,

I just did this (using qmail) by following the instructions at
http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html
and also at http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html

I started by trying to use sendmail, since it was already installed on my RedHat machine, but it turned out to be more pain than uninstalling it and just using qmail (which is what drove (drives?) Hotmail. I know that Microsoft was trying to get off of their Unix mail servers as soon as possible after they bought Hotmail!)

Good luck!

-Scott

 

[Damaged]

RH Mail Server Support

Honestly, these are some of the best docs on the web about how to configure a mail server, even though they're geared towards RH.