configuring mail server on red linux

You need: (horizontal) in order of preference:

an MTA courier, exim, postfix, (sendmail if you want to live on the edge.)
an MDA courier, exim, postfix, procmail
an IMAP server courier, some pop/imap server
a virus/spam scanner: amavis + spamassassin
+ a virusscanner of your choice.
in case of webmail: courier, squirrelmail.
Outlook will work with an imap server.
For courier you need to configure with Maildir's to support imap.

The courier mta has everything you need, RPM's are easy to make if needed.

Another solution is clark connect, it is installed within an hour, it is based on RedHat 9, web managed et al. (courier-imap, postfix amavis )

kind regards,

Hi
You have many alternatives.Sendmail/Qmail are the popular MTA's which can be configured alongwith DNS+Spam+Anti-Virus etc. You name it and you have it in Open-Source.My Question is How many users you have? What's ur present setup for mail? Unless ur clear what you want from Linux Mail Server,don't rush to anything

rgds,
Dillip

If you are looking for a cookbook for creating a mail server you could do a lot worse than www.qmailrocks.org

It gives a step by step guide, along with all the packages you need and some helper scripts to do the more tedious bits of configuration. And better still it works or at least it did for me!

hi there, first u should choose the MTA. i reccomend u to install sendmail rpm on ur system. with sendmail or Qmail u can configure antivirus, spammer and many other things plugin. in this case u can enable web mail also with sendmail.this is very simple procedure. if u want to know more ab it then let me know.

You can chose qmail or postfix. Both are robast.
If you want to host mail for multiple domain in the same server than go for qmail.
For qmail you can use qmailtoaster, it's quite easy and simple. http://www.shupp.org/toaster/ has a tutoril of qmailtoaster on centos.
Postfix is also can be a good choice.