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....
Where can I go to look up the packages on Fedora Core 5?
Any suggestions on a pop3 server?
And I'm still not clear on setting up an email account. Is that handled through the pop3 server?
I saw port 587 was used in sendmail also. Is that a standard alternative to port 25?
Thanks a bunch for all your help,
Keith
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plug@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@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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