VPS - SendMail Config

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 08:23 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I've been reading about postfix for years.
> 
> My concern is messing up a vps server .... this is for leaning mostly
> so I guess I give it a try. 
> 
> The last Linux I used was Debian Patato.  I was familiar with apt-get
> and how to determine which package to get.  I would go to the Debian
> website where they listed all the packages.
> 
> I'm aware of exim, postfix,qmail, and sendmail.  I hear exim is good
> but not widely used.  Qmail is reportedly difficult to configure.
> Evey one says to avoid sendmail.   I've also read that sendmail is not
> all that efficient.  I have read good things about postfix over the
> years.  I think postfix will be my next stop.
> 
> I'm not sure how to find the yum command to uninstall sendmail and
> what  package would install PostFix.  - I'll start by checking with
> google....
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yum install postfix

system-config-mail # provides menial switch over from sendmail ->
postfix or vice versa
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> 
> Where can I go to look up the packages on Fedora Core 5?
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yum search PACKAGE_NAME_OR_FRAGMENT

if you want click through...
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/5/i386//os/Fedora/RPMS

but that is just 'core' and each repo has it's own set of packages
(updates, rpmforge, livna, etc.)

yum search looks at all configured repositories
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> 
> Any suggestions on a pop3 server?
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cyrus-imapd
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> 
> And I'm still not clear on setting up an email account.  Is that
> handled through the pop3 server?
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system-config-users
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> I saw port 587 was used in sendmail also.  Is that a standard
> alternative to port 25?
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sure - google it

Craig

> Thanks a bunch for all your help,
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> Empty <plug at emptiedout.com> wrote:
>         keith smith wrote:
>         > I'm trying to configure sendmail 8.13 on Fedora Core 5. This
>         is a VPS and I'm doing everything from the command line.
>         
>         No clue on that one, but I would suggest Anything but
>         Sendmail... Try
>         Postfix or Exim or, if you are fairly knowledgeable, qmail.
>         
>         > All I want to do is create an email account
>         info at travelingcheese.net and access it via Thunderbird or
>         webmail. - no local user.
>         
>         So you need a POP3 or IMAP server too...
>         
>         > I would also like to add a port in addition to port 25 for
>         smtp as an alternate.
>         
>         The port you want is port 587.
>         
>         ~Ben
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