Re: mail server setup doc's

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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:30:57PM -0700, Wokness wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I want to set up a mail server on my OpenBSD box and
> am wondering where to go for good documentation. I was
> attemping install postfix, but they have almost no
> documentation about the install, config, and running
> of the mail server on their web site. Maybe I just
> missed it, could someone point me to some
> documentation, it does not have to be for just
> postfix, but can be for qmail or any other secure mail
> server. Keep in mind that this is a small mail server
> for one person so I do not need anything as massive as
> sendmail. 
>   I am basically looking for documentation on setting
> up a mail server starting from the basic and guiding
> me to the end, like going from install -> creating and
> managing accounts.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Wokness
> 

I'm not even close to being a sendmail expert, but still I found it the MTA that best servers my purposes, and there is a lot of documentation out there for it. If you want sendmail to deliver to maildirs (like qmail and I think postfix too) that could be easily achieved with procmail. Protect sendmail with smap (www.fwtk.org) or smtpd (already installed) and you have a secure and reliable solution that is rahter straight forward to administer. This in conjunction with courier-imapd is IMHO a very nice mail-solution.

Just my 2 öre.

// Penty