On 13/09/03 10:19 +0530, Netbaba wrote:
> Please help me with setting up a mail server for my college
> I want to know what software should I use and what distro is better for
> this work
Hmmm, I will avoid the distro question. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
is your friend.
 
> I have PCQlinux 7.3 PCQlinux 8.0  and redhat 9.0
PCQLinux 7.1 you mean.
 
> The requirement s is as given below
> WE need to schedule the email downloads from our main webserver through
> a ISDN line.
cron, wvdial.
 
> We need web based interface for the staff to be able to check their mail
Squirrelmail/Horde
 
> All mails sent to the domain endup in  a single IMAP /Pop3 acc come to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] that email needs to be sorted according to the TO address
> into different mailboxes
fetchmail in multidrop mode.

> It even needs to act as an outgoing email server too.
Postfix/Exim/Sendmail/Qmail as MTA>
Courier-Imap / Cyrus Imap as POP3/IMAP server.

> Now coming to proxy I want to knwow if squid is the one I should use.
For HTTP browsing, yes. There are different proxies for different
protocols. You might want to look at squidguard as well.
 
> Also where can I find a step by step tutorial since I have hardly any
> command line experience as well I don't have much time to do it.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml

http://www.google.com/ is your friend.

Devdas Bhagat 

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