Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 12:13:01 -0500 From: ravi pina <ravi@cow.org> To: Mark Hughes <mark@dvdnews.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a mail server - good tutorial/guide? Message-ID: <20011103121300.P97368@happy.cow.org> In-Reply-To: <002f01c16489$2e68c5c0$0200a8c0@mark2>; from mark@dvdnews.co.uk on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:00:54PM -0000 References: <002f01c16489$2e68c5c0$0200a8c0@mark2>
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:00:54PM -0000, Mark Hughes said at one point in time: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a web server at the moment, and it will also be handling > mail for a few users (no great quantity of mail - few hundred mails a day > at absolute most). I've been looking for a good tutorial/guide on setting > up a mail server on FreeBSD - anyone know of one? (I may write one myself > after doing this if I don't find a good one....). > > I'm a bit lost as to where to start - need to have IMAP and POP access to > the mail accounts as well as local mail access. > > Anyone got any good pointers? well, i'm sure there are install guides for delivery agents. you probably want to decide one and read up on its install guide. the two that i like are sendmail[1] and postfixi[2]. i'm sure there are others, but that is a place to start. the latter is much easier to configure. -r [1] http://www.sendmail.org/ /usr/ports/mail/sendmail/ [2] http://www.postfix.org/ /usr/ports/mail/postfixi-current/ -- echo "send pgp key" | mail ravi@cow.org Why is a procrastinator's work never done? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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