[geeks] Linux Mail Servers

[Phil Stracchino]

Mark Benson wrote:
> eMail servers. I have no idea what, where or how. I want to buy a book
> to work from (probably an O'Reilly) but I don't know even what book is
> relevant. We need internal e-mail and a SMTP server to send out of the
> building. Ubuntu Server kindly loaded postfix and dovecot when I asked
> for a Mail Server. I have zero experience on either.

Dovecot isn't an MTA, it's an IMAP/POP3 server.  Postfix is an MTA.

It gave you a good starting setup.  Now go look at
http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html.

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