On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:21:51PM +0100, Chris Dickson wrote: > I just got Red Hat 7.1 and installed it, I have never used any kind of linux > before and at the moment my impressions are quite good. I've managed to > install it and get it to see the internet through my home network and also > to print through my Win 2K box and my next task for it is as a mail server. > > I would like it to download the e-mail from our accounts > ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and then forward the messages to a mail server > on the linux box which needs setting up. I would then like to get all of the > windows machines (2K and Me) to fetch the mail off of the linux box. > > I am quite sure this is possible and would like to be either pointed to ward > a text somewhere which explains how to do this, or better still talked > through it. I don't want to just read a textbook and plug it in though > because I want to learn what each step actually does. > > Thanks in advance > > Chris > If you're going to be setting up mail and dns, I would recommend qmail and djbdns, by D.J. Bernstein.
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