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:
>
> http://www.qmailtoaster.com/
>
> 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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