On Wednesday 19 March 2008 06:17:54 am Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed March 19 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Exim sends emails. It is MTA. > > > > And it receives email, too. > > ok, I admit it, I know nothing about setting up mail servers,etc..
Stop now! Setting up mail services by fumbling in the dark has the very real potential to make your mail server a spam vector. Before continuing, I strongly reccommend, at the very least, reading through Wikipedia about SMTP and other email related protocols, and familiarize yourself with the documentation for the MTA you decide to go with. Once you've done that and have some basic understanding of the mechanics of email, it should become a little more clear what you need to do and what you need to avoid to set up a mail server without becoming a spam relay. > I have my own domain, and I have it hosted. What would I need to run, > besides my kmail, to receive and send mail from my Debian PC, hosting my > own domain? I keep hearing about postfix, sendmail, exim... Exim is the default in Debian, and the one I suggest you go with unless you want to set up some kind of groupware like Kolab (in which case, go with what it depends on or recommends). Exim is pretty straightforward and relatively easy to work with. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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