Mail Server like Yahoo/Hotmail

[Erin D. Hughes]

Panda wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am planning to convert my Fedora Core 3 Server as mailserver like
>Yahoo/Hotmail.
>Can any one help me regarding this?
>
>Regards
>Falcon
>
>  
>
Sorry man but I got to say this first GOOGLE! I mean hell you got a 
gmail account so you must know where it is.

Ok now that that is out of the way. Like any project you need some kinda 
planning in here.
How many users, what are your goals for the server, where is the server 
residing?

IF you and your friends want to have a mail server that hosts your 
e-mail for a couple of accounts nothing major and nothing too difficult 
then I might suggest.

Sendmail W/ SMTP AUTH + Dovecot IMAP + Squirrlemail

These are all standard packages available with. FC 2 and 3.

Honestly you can pretty much run yum and install all 3 and have it 
running in a few minutes.
after all 3 are installed
 From joey bumps  excellent  tutorial
1. Edit sendmail.cf and Change this:

|DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl|

To this:

|dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl|

Generate sendmail.cf, and restart sendmail:

m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
service sendmail restart

2. Start them "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start" 
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/dovecot  start"
3. Login with a valid user account to... 
http://fullyqualiffieddomainname/webmail/ and play around till you get 
mail to go in and out.

SMTP AUTH is pretty important for sending e-mail unless you want to add 
users IPs every time they change to your access file. So here is a link 
to a very good tutorial on how to do that 
http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/smtpauth.html

Mail to me is the lifeblood of the internet...... If you just "set it 
up" you will have problems.... but if you LEARN how to set it up you 
will know what you need in order to make a server run, run well and 
limit your problems.

Also I suggest you subscribe to the very active mailing lists of the 
following and people there will be able to give you more details and BTW 
Apache is needed by Squirrelmail.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.mail.sendmail?hl=en
http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingLists?PHPSESSID=11dfc5ac3c4f4d66580916fdc4de2600
http://www.clamav.net/ml.html#pagestart
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists

I use these and others on various servers I admin. They are all good or 
great for some things and there are others check em out you will see 
there are endless possibilities...... all depends on what you want and 
what your goals are.

Erin