On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:19, Jason Williams wrote: > ...for a task I am about to embark upon.. > > I am about to setup and configure a mail server for my network. > I have decided on a few things that I am going to use: > > Postfix > IMAP > > My question to everyone here is this: > > What I need to do is setup and install this server as quickly as I can, yet > have it up and running safely and securely. > With that in mind, I wanted to ask the following questions: > > 1.) What version of RH would be recommended? 7.3? 8.0? 9.0?
Whichever you feel most comfortable with, given your requirements. RH9 is probably as good as any in a server situation, so long as it's patched and configured properly. Naturally, it also has the longest until End-of-Life for errata. > 2.) What IMAP software would you recommend? Courier? UW-IMAP? Cyrus? I've heard very good things about Courier. I haven't tried it personally, but have read the documentation and was impressed. Any future mailservers I engineer are likely to be Courier (ESMTP/IMAP) based. > Lastly, does anyone know of a good set of documentation that I could use to > follow and set this up. Seeing as you don't really need Postfix, the standard Courier documentation (http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html) should suffice. If you prefer to use Postfix, I've verified that a google for "courier postfix howto" will return what you're looking for. > I feel like my back is against the wall here and I need to get this up and > running as soon as I can. Doesn't sound too tough. You'll be fine. Just make sure you consider your hardware requirements (if they even let you choose). A nice solution would be to have twin servers running mail services, with NFS-mounted home directories on a RAID server. Hope this gives you some ideas... -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
