how to setup a mail server from scatch???

[war072]

hi all, im in south africa, cape town and very new to the open source spectrum. i managed to get hold of a copy of mandrakemove but i wish use & setup the os for networking use as a server & especially as a mail cause i've heard some great things about linux as a mail/web/proxy/firewall. but i have no idea at all how to do this, can anybody help me???

[jasonlambert]

The first thing todo would be to install mandrake on your PC. Once you've done that install and configure the seperate HTTP/SMTP etc servers seperatly. There is plenty of documentation already available on the net for how to do this for each server, it would be pointless to re-write it all here.

To install apache with PHP: http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.php (see apache 1.3x and 2.0 pages)

To install sendmail visit sendmail.org

To install the squid HTTP Proxy visit http://www.squid-cache.org/ and follow the configuration guide and user guide links

etc etc

[war072]

thanx for all the info & help!!!! i really appreciate it. but one last question. is there no way to set this all up using mandrakemove running from cd???

[Thulemanden]

thanx for all the info & help!!!! i really appreciate it. but one last question. is there no way to set this all up using mandrakemove running from cd???

What would the benefits of that be compared to a normal harddisk installation of the server in your mind?

How would you and the users be satisfied with a slow running server on a cd-rom?

I think the question has merit as refreshing and original, but it's hard for me too see the point other than your server being a moving target