Linux Mail Server needed !

If you have RH7.1 just install sendmail as a mail server and support for pop3

First you need to hae a running RH7.1 with network running.
You need also to install sendmail and imap packages.
In your windows clients you need to configure your redhat as your smtp and pop3 server.
If you need information about sendmail on redhat systems there are sone tips an articles at www.redhat.com in the documentation area
There are a lot of documentation in the internet. A cool book with a step by step documentation is here http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3.pdf
Good luck

If you have redhat 7.1 then u can use sendmail for smtp server and get a pop3 application.
and you must configure it to fit your networks, and for the account you can add as many u want, but i recomend you to use qmail for maore email client.
The hardware specs fot the email server is depend on your needs, PIII is good and cheap now, and give more memory to RH, so it can run smoothly .
If you also want your client win see the linux server u can use samba and install it in your redhat to share files and printers.

hope it's give u vision...

Me

Hi,

I've answerd a question like this last week. But It's allways a challenge ! So, take a look at this info and let's go on then ....

<<...To question #1 the answer is yes, but you have a lot to work. You can have a look at

www.linux.org/apps/index.html
www.linux.org/apps/daemons/....
www.linux.org/apps/networking/....

And you will find the application you need to share files with windows world (samba), nfs to share
files all over your linux network, SMB so youcan grant users with NT domains, etc. Some of
these application are in the different distributions.

The answer to question #2 is yes, you've got as much flavors as you like, as mail servers you have,
sendmail, pine, pine2, etc,
the clients can be kde (I'm using kde mail client to reach an exchange server an sendmail server
too), gnome, staroffice, netscape, etc. I'm using sendmail as mail relay server, and mail local
server, and as internet mail server. All is up to how you configure this daemon. ....>>

Don't be affraid of what kind of linux flavor your'e going to install, these links that I gave you are form www.linux.org because all these software pakages are supposed to run in all distributions, and the onlypossible trouble you may have is to have installed the recomended kernel for the package. At the next links you may find the servers, clients, and info about the diferent type of mail servers you can get. I'm working actualy (as related above with sendmail as mail server and mail relay server, allso with an ms exchange server with about 2000 emails/day incoming an outgoing).

Now the links

www.linux.org/apps/all/Networking/Email.html
www.linux.org/apps/all/Networking/SMB.html
www.linux.org/apps/all/daemons/SMB/Filesharing.html
www.linux.org/apps/all/Ofice/Ofice.html

For an comecial free ware you can get Star Office at

www.sun.com/staroffice/

Hi Stef. I run sendmail on a old Dell 200mhz w/64 mb ram. This serves e-mail not only to our local office, but also 2 branch offices. The Linux distrib is 6.2 & am planning to update to 7.1 soon, but the thing has run perfect for 2 years. All the client machines use Outlook 97.
You don't have to run Samba (smb) at all unless you want to use the Linux box as a file server to your Windows boxes. I think all you want is a mail server, and sendmail will work fine. BTY, I used to use that MS Postoffice a long time ago too. Good Luck!
Keith

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