I agree, what I'm trying to do is overkill, but I'm doing it for a couple of reasons. First for the learning experience, second, bellsouth has problems with their smtp server at the worst times, and being able to send and receive email is a critical part of my job. You're right. I know nothing about administering a server of anykind, this would be a good time to learn. I guess one question I need to ask now is, how do I go about getting an unused domain name for my machine? Also, bellsouth said that I would not be violating my service agreement. Thanks Jimmy On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 22:55 -0400, Steve Huff wrote:
On Jun 19, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Oy. You're directing someone who obviously knows little about setting up and administering a server to Dan Bernstein land? You might also want to let him know that he'll have to install all of Dan's other support programs first and that Dan is a flaming *** to deal with if you're one of the unwashed masses. 8-)
Postfix takes only a few minutes to setup on a virgin CentOS box and you won't have to download any 3rd party extras to make it work.
oh, whatever - there's *extensive* documentation, which largely insulates users from having to actually deal with djb at all.
for a turnkey mail server solution i would recommend the Qmail Toaster:
it's a RPM-based solution that provides not only SMTP service but also IMAP, POP, webmail, virtual domains, web-based configuration, autoresponders, spam and virus filtering... and it's designed to be compatible with CentOS 3 and 4 (among other distros). good stuff.
-steve
p.s. but again, this sounds like overkill for what the OP apparently wants to do.
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