jharadie
January 5th, 2009, 06:06 AM
I'm finally in a position to setup a small home server. Yay! I want to use 8.04LTS text-only. I'll probably be putting it on an old laptop (Dell Inspiron 2150, 256M RAM, 18G HD), though there is the danger that I might have to resort to a very very old Compaq that has only 192M RAM. I mainly want to use it to act as an email-to-fax gateway for www.tpc.int. Here are my questions:
I don't need MySQL, but I should go ahead and install LAMP, then sudo apt-get remove MySQL? Isn't there another apt-get command to remove leftover MySQL files?
Same as above for Postfix. tpc.int really prefers sendmail, though I need to find a way to get it to use my Comcast account for outbound mail. All HOWTOs, suggestions, links would be appreciated. I would install Dovecot and Mutt, for local delivery and also now that Yahoo lets me POP3 other accounts.
I'm guessing I need Putty on the server as well as my main machine for management. Also Open SSL? Input on that would be appreciated, too.
At least I know how to do Samba. No problem there.
I'll also have to download and install HylaFax, but that's a separate issue from this forum.
When LAMP installs PHP5, does it also install the PEAR module so "mail" in a php script works? If not, how do I install that module?
The server will primarily function as an email-to-fax gateway, second, there will be a couple of php scripts (and possibly a cgi script) that gather info and mail to me on a daily basis. To have a HOWTO to get sendmail to get around the Comcast port 25 block and send the emails directly to my Yahoo account would be a tremendous help (so I don't have to POP3 everytime I login to my Yahoo account). I looked at the Postfix and Exim HOWTOs and they are just way too overwhelming for this noob.
I don't plan to put up webpages (other than one that says Hello), or do other fancy stuff.
All suggestions, comments, links to HOWTOs, etc., would be greatly apprecaited. Thank you.
:)
I don't need MySQL, but I should go ahead and install LAMP, then sudo apt-get remove MySQL? Isn't there another apt-get command to remove leftover MySQL files?
Same as above for Postfix. tpc.int really prefers sendmail, though I need to find a way to get it to use my Comcast account for outbound mail. All HOWTOs, suggestions, links would be appreciated. I would install Dovecot and Mutt, for local delivery and also now that Yahoo lets me POP3 other accounts.
I'm guessing I need Putty on the server as well as my main machine for management. Also Open SSL? Input on that would be appreciated, too.
At least I know how to do Samba. No problem there.
I'll also have to download and install HylaFax, but that's a separate issue from this forum.
When LAMP installs PHP5, does it also install the PEAR module so "mail" in a php script works? If not, how do I install that module?
The server will primarily function as an email-to-fax gateway, second, there will be a couple of php scripts (and possibly a cgi script) that gather info and mail to me on a daily basis. To have a HOWTO to get sendmail to get around the Comcast port 25 block and send the emails directly to my Yahoo account would be a tremendous help (so I don't have to POP3 everytime I login to my Yahoo account). I looked at the Postfix and Exim HOWTOs and they are just way too overwhelming for this noob.
I don't plan to put up webpages (other than one that says Hello), or do other fancy stuff.
All suggestions, comments, links to HOWTOs, etc., would be greatly apprecaited. Thank you.
:)