Fedora as Appliance

[Ryan D'Baisse]

My goal: To create a custom distribution of Linux (hopefully using Fedora)
to act strictly as a SMTP, POP, and web server.  I want to essentially try
building a Fedora-based internet appliance for my mail server.
 
I want to build a Java/JSP-based email server... Java for the middle
"worker" processes and JSP for configuration.  I have already build the
majority of Java utilities, that will function behind the scenes, and am now
working on the JSP-based web application to configure the various Java
components.  I would hope to reuse existing reliable packages for the SMTP &
POP3 pieces (for now).
 
I am looking for recommendations on the following...
 
    1. Recommendations for the SMTP & POP3 daemons / packages;
    2. Recommendations on the minimum packages needed for this;
    3. Recommendations on good "how to" articles for building custom
distributions; and,
    4. Anything else that may be helpful.
 
As an FYI, I am building the Java/JSP pieces on Windows and testing on a FC4
virtual machine using VMWare.  I have an older machine that ran FC2 & FC3
perfectly.  Everything that is non-essential has been stripped out of the
box (floppy, firewire, USB, sound card, etc.).  Once I am done with this, I
will be installing on that older box.
 
Thanx,
Ryan
 
 
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