On 11/08/11 10:10 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step by
> step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on
> google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. Does
> anyone know where I can find this type of document for a mailserver
> Postfix + MySQL + SpamAssassin + ClamAV + Squirrelmail + Postfixadmin, etc?
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-Mail_Servers.html
is as good a place to start as any.
not sure why mysql has to do with email servers.... yes, I know, you
_can_ configure email servers to use SQL databases as the message
stores, but I really don't think you _should_ do that, it just adds more
overhead.
spamassassin has its own documentation, and frankly, its a big complex
set of tools, there's no one 'right' way to set it up, as spam is a big
complex problem. each mail administrator will have to weigh the pros
and cons of the various options and how acceptible they are to his
environment. docs are here, http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc.html
squirrelmail is not actually a mail server, its a web based mail
reader. its also not a standard part of the centos distribution. see
http://squirrelmail.org/
postfixadmin, I dunno, never used it. I don't believe its supplied by
CentOS, but its probably available from various third parties... I
manage my mail servers with shell tools.
you left out an important part of a mail server, which is a mail user
agent such as dovecot or cyrus, these provide the POP and IMAP protocols
that a user mail client such as Thunderbird need to read the mail. the
basics of setting these up should be covered in the redhat doc above.
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john r pierce N 37, W 122
santa cruz ca mid-left coast
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