Hi Since you have reached one conclusion, i would like to point out, that until the day comes, when you are comfortable with editing a config file to alter a behavior of a service, you will be doing exactly what you have just done, started switching distros ... until somthing had what you wanted working. Unfortionatly gui configuration aides are just that, aides only ment to help, a bit with some of the standard stuff, at the end of the day, these gui programmes are editing the config files and saving them for you. If you read the man pages, and the readme and howto supplyed by your package or tarball, you could find out why the gui did not work, and you could also be able to edit the appropriate config files to achive the desired effects. Modtly due to the speed of developement of open source programs, changes are implemented to the configuration files with almost every new version, if for some reason the gui did not follow these changes, you will not be able to use them to affect the changes you desire. Another problem is the names and places of them config files. Some distros, would name the config files differently and put them somewhere else. They would still be obvious for a human eye, but quite unreachable for a gui. You might have benn creating and editing a config file that the particular flavored server never read. This is one of the most common couses of gui faliores like the onece you experienced. I also had similar experience with redhat 7.0, the changes in the way the mouse was configured was not reflected in the configuration program. The result, catastrophic. Nither the mouse worked nor X, and the whole gui would not run becouse of that. Ok the fix was out their, but when i found it, i have allready fixed the problem manually, and got X running and googled the problem, and updated the packege never to use it again. Spend more time learning how to configure by editing files, and you could be well off. I am quite sure you need not have hanged distro to get your mail server going, maybe replaceing the gui with a new one could have helped, or, reading some documentation on the subject, google for maybe that distro of suse may have had trouble with the mail server setup, and then applying necessery fix for that one. But that is more to the effect of boxed thinking, you do not need the gui, it is surely nice to have, but not essential to achiving the goal.
Sorry for the xxl post But hey, its a briliant Saturday here Cheers Szemir On Saturday 15 March 2003 11:56, you wrote: > I just thought I'd share my experience with setting up my email server. > It's up and running finally - with SMTP and POP3 access to it. > > My experience shows that Suse 8.1 is very capable of becoming an email > server, but requires a deep understanding of the server configuration > files. The default installation will handle SMTP traffic fine, but getting > POP3/IMAP running on it was something I hadn't been able to get running > properly using the gui interfaces. Even after making the appropriate > changes in the config files I was still having problems (I'm sure I missed > a step, but can't identify what it was....) > > So, I decided to try Red Hat 8 (seeing as I had the ISO's sitting here). > Red Hat's default installation is similar to Suse - it installs Sendmail, > but you can also have Postfix installed as well (Postfix being a little > more secure). Setting up POP3/IMAP can be done via the gui interfaces. > However, trying to receive POP3 mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in KMail, while > you are logged into the server as root, seems to be troublesome. But, when > I boot up my Windows PC, and connect Outlook to the server, it works as > expected (after authentication - which is also configured for you). > > So at this point, if I were to recommend an email server to someone, I > would suggest they run on Red Hat, unless they wanted to take the time to > learn the in's and out's of the various config files (which I would > recommend anyways - there's some cool tricks you can do with them). > > Just keep in mind that I'm a relative newbie to Linux as a server (as > opposed to a workstation which seems to be what most installs are), and > I've only examined two distros with two MTA's - there more combinations out > there, and packages like QMail, and E-Smith that might be more suitable for > some. > > HTH someone out there. > > Shawn
