Since you are starting a fresh, Postfix is recommended. It is with
FC3. Postfix is easy to configure. It can be configured (basic config,
of cource) thru webmin tool. Search the LIH mail archive. There a a
good discussion on it.
You will not get compiled version of qmail You have to compile it yourself.
Postfix documentation is -
http://advosys.ca/papers/
http://www.postfix.org/docs.html
A nice book, worth purchasing is-
"Postfix: The Definitive Guide" -By Kyle D. Dent
Other alternate may be " exim"
> Subject: Re: [LIH]SETTING UP A MAIL SERVER
> > Ours is a small network.
> > I would like to set up a linux machine to:
> > 1. act as a local mail server (i.e. distribute mail to and from clients
> > on the local network)
> > 2. act as a passthrough for external mail - all outbound mail is sent to
> > this server. THis server then sends the mail to the external address by
> > using the smtp server of an ISP (since we do not have our own IP address
> > etc.). SImilarly the server receives mail from outside. Clients on the
> > network pick up the mail from our server.
> > How can this be done? I have attemptd to configure Postfix to send mail
> > using another ISP but the mail bounces back from the ISP with an error
> > message ("this domain is not allowed to be relayed through this MTA")
> > Thanks in advance for help and pointers for this. I know this must be
> > pretty elementary but cannot get going on my own.
>
> Get qmail. Download qinstall and that will help you install qmail easily. It
> comes bundled with the packages and the patches that you might be needing.
> After unstarring it, run:
> ./qinstall -gui
>
> That should help you.
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