Hi Craig, Thanks for all the info. I'll be taking a look. Again Thanks Keith Craig White wrote: 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.... ---- yum install postfix system-config-mail # provides menial switch over from sendmail -> postfix or vice versa ---- > > Where can I go to look up the packages on Fedora Core 5? ---- 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 ---- > > Any suggestions on a pop3 server? ---- cyrus-imapd ----- > > And I'm still not clear on setting up an email account. Is that > handled through the pop3 server? ---- system-config-users ---- > I saw port 587 was used in sendmail also. Is that a standard > alternative to port 25? ---- sure - google it Craig > Thanks a bunch for all your help, > Keith > - --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.