Ubuntu Mail Server Setup Help?

[amvx86]

Fellow Linux users,

I am in need of some help or a solid tutorial on how to setup a MTA on a local server that i maintain. Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

Kindest Regards,
Anthony.

[Mad Professor]

Depends on what you're aiming for.

Are you trying to setup a mail server or mta relay?


There's several opensource software to achieve both of this.

sendmail
Here's a doc for configuring sendmail
Quick HOWTO : Ch21 : Configuring Linux Mail Servers - Linux Home Networking

Postfix

Here's a few docs for setting up postfix on ubuntu.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailServer
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Po...asicSetupHowto

and my favorite, an all-in-one suite.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac
They have a decent wiki and support forum.

Hope this helps.

[amvx86]

Mad Professor,

What i would like to do is setup a mail server to get a feel for it, and then do a relay. Basically to setup both. And, then once i figure this out setup the hardest portion of a server BIND9. I appreciate the resources, and will take a look later tonight =) Thank you for your quick reply.


Kindest Regards,
Anthony.

[Mad Professor]

Well try Zimbra, it's by far the easiest since everything is automatically setup for you. It can do both, You can set it up then add Authenticated MTA Relay, There's several docs in zimbra wiki on how to do this. Not to mention Zimbra provides web interface along with pop3 and imap access and you can use email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunerbird or Zimbra desktop. Frankly I run my own personal zimbra email server using the open source edition. I practically love it, and then people ask me why I run my own mail server, I always reply "for the fun of it."


If you sit behind a nat firewall/router you will have to setup a split DNS, this might cause trouble for you and you need to have port 80 available during the setup. You can change the port to something else but during the install you will have temporarily shutdown anything using port 80 until you do the port change. After that you can configure "YOUR" Apache web server to do virtual host and setup the domain to redirect to zimbra apache.

If you want to be old school and setup postfix or sendmail, then I will try to help you to the best of my knowledge.