setup mail server

[Nina Pham]

bryan at redfedora.co.uk wrote:

>>Hi, this is the first time I'm dealing with setting up email server, I
>>have no clue about how to start. Anyone please show me how to setup a
>>mail server on FC, or give me links that can help.
>>Thanks
>>
>>Nina
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>>
>
>Hi Nina
>
>I've done this several times over for work - what sort of setup were you
>looking for? For example mine polls a remote mailbox drags all the mail back
>then redistributes it and has some forwarding rules to send it back out to
>the reps on the road and so on. So it's a fetchmail, sendmail and procmail
>setup and all works quite nicely pretty much out of the box. I documented
>all my work so if you want a look at some notes feel free to ask. I was in
>the same position as you four years back and it does look daunting at first
>however all the steps are logical ones.
>
>The steps I took were buying the sendmail (bat) book and reading how the
>heck it worked! Fetchmail and procmail are a doddle to do in comparison. The
>sendmail website does have good information as does the usenet newsgroup.
>The newsgroup is also pretty amicable.
>
>There's also some good information in the RedHat source SRPM's for sendmail
>and I thorougly recommend installing that and having a read too. Some
>changes in the later versions have caught people out with the way it works.
>
>You'll certainly not regret the effort you plough into it I guarantee you
>that. The M$ one drove me 'round the bend hence the change to a linux
>solution. Does exactly what it say's on the tin! and hasn't let me down.
>
>Bryan
>  
>
Well,  I want to setup the mail server from the FC1 system, just as 
experiment for my work, so that everybody can checkmail, recieve mail, 
sendmail,....from their own windows PC. I also like to have the spam 
checker functionality, and also do mail backup everynight. My plan is 
that, but right now, I need a good start which I have no clue. Ahhhh, I 
went to sendmail.org, but it doesn't exactly show how to setup mail 
server. I'm a brand newbies :(

Nina