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bbeenn
05-07-2004, 04:41 AM
hay i was wondering how i would set up e-mail server on my computer.
will be just for fun and educational.
ive used apache under XP to do a web page but was wondering how to do email under linux.
Aman
05-07-2004, 07:19 AM
http://www.eudora.com/qpopper

Check that link
madcow
05-07-2004, 03:37 PM
no! use qmail!
http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
hi, Andrew =)

also, i'd like to recomend NULL Webmail if you plan on running a webmail (or want to check/send email from a browser) http://freshmeat.net/projects/nullwebmail/?branch_id=14320&release_id=158889
Vile
05-07-2004, 04:46 PM
What about SquirrelMail & NeoMail?
Aman
05-07-2004, 11:24 PM
Bbeen is an XP user, madcow...

I thought it'd be better for him to run something more graphical. My cousin ran qpopper and it was beautiful :D

Surprisingly, Vile, I haven't heard of both those servers you have mentioned. Strange, must you purchase them or are they simply open source packages?
bbeenn
05-08-2004, 03:35 AM
yeah im still using XP. i have mandrake on a disk somewhere but need to get slackware from somebody becuse it would take a life time to download on dile up.
Vile
05-08-2004, 07:43 AM
Bbeen is an XP user, madcow...

I thought it'd be better for him to run something more graphical. My cousin ran qpopper and it was beautiful :D

Surprisingly, Vile, I haven't heard of both those servers you have mentioned. Strange, must you purchase them or are they simply open source packages?

SquirrelMail is one of the most common/popular web client online. NeoMail is also very popular and widely used.

And they are open source btw.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/
http://neomail.sourceforge.net
madcow
05-08-2004, 08:35 AM
vile: i thought squirrelmail was for small servers? like home email or something? that's why i didn't suggest it... i guess i was wrong...
neomail i haven't heard of, though
:checks:
arckane
05-08-2004, 10:54 AM
May as well stick with the grand daddy of all of them and use SendMail.

It's the oldest and probably the most worked upon version, yes, it's open source and if you need a gui you can easily use webmin to configure it. There is also many other GUI frontends you can use for it too.

A lot of mail may bounce though, due to virus attacks and spam mail a lot of Mail servers will not accept mail from unknown/unregistered MX servers. This is where DNS and such kicks in....

I can supply loads of docs and stuff on it if ya need it :)
bbeenn
05-09-2004, 01:48 AM
that would be great if i could have those docs arckane.
bbeenn
05-10-2004, 02:49 AM
i will need a pop server and a smpt wont it.