Setting up a mail server

ZeroTruths · 2010-07-17 01:57:39

That's it. I give in. I'm officially lost.

Over the past days, I've been trying to setup a mail server to no avail, and am now asking for help. I've gone through many guides, but in the end, they're always lacking one key thing, one way or another.

Breathe.

Ok. So here's what I've spent hours trying to do. I have a Linode server setup (Arch of course) and am trying to setup some seemingly simple mail forwarding for a website I'm trying to create. I want to be able to forward any email sent to my personal email using POP3 over SSL as well as be able to send email appearing as if it's coming from the address on the website (gmail makes this easy, but I just don't know how to get the server setup properly).

The last guide that I followed was http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix, which got me fairly close. I do not need/want a web frontend. I simply want to be able to receive and send via POP3.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I should modify the tutorial as to fit my needs? I feel as if I'm at an ends.

fukawi2 · 2010-07-17 09:05:45

What are the actual problem you're having? At the moment, you're in the doctors office and all you've said is that "it hurts"

Error messages, config files etc would be helpful.

Last edited by fukawi2 (2010-07-17 09:06:02)

ZeroTruths · 2010-07-17 20:10:37

Heh. I suppose I should calm down before writing posts.

Anyways, what I'm having trouble with is setting up a mail server that can use POP3. My goal is to setup an email server that runs a mysql backend and has POP3 capabilities. I'm having a hard time finding any tutorials based in Arch that use postfix and courier-imap to do what I need. I've taken a look at Courier MTA tutorial, and would be willing to use it, if I could figure out how to use Mysql instead of BerkeleyDB.

What I'm really looking for is some sort of walk-through that would fit these needs, but seeing as that might not exactly exist, I'm open to other alternatives that would get a similar result.

Pajaro · 2010-07-17 23:59:43

Try a fedore core "walkthrough":

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-serve … spconfig-3

Or try qmail:

http://www.qmail.org/top.html

briest · 2010-07-19 18:24:37

ZeroTruths wrote:

The last guide that I followed was http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix, which got me fairly close. I do not need/want a web frontend. I simply want to be able to receive and send via POP3.

OK. So forget about both Squirrelmail sections, and modify Step 6 in Courier-IMAP part: set CI_DAEMONS to "pop3d". Once you have a working setup, you can add SSL with not much hassle.

Having said that, I'd rather use Exim + Dovecot and avoid aforementioned qmail by all means, but as you haven't expressed interest in flame about mailservers, I won't try to create one

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Setting up a mail server

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#3 2010-07-17 20:10:37

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