Ubuntu Home Mail Server

[pierrej]

Hi,

Jist of the problem: I need a home email server. I had one, it died 6 months ago, I fixed it 4 months ago, and now am finally trying to bring it back online.

When I originally set it up, I used a guide and cannot remember where I found it, unfortunately everything I find is either beyond what I need or not at all what I need.

All I want the server to do is retreive email from my domain host, put it into mailboxes, but scan mainly for spam, I am not too warried about viruses, but that is a bonus. I dont need it to do the relaying of email as the pc's will send directly to the relay host at my internet provider - but I do know that this can be setup in Postfix - just dont know how, - Generally I dont know what and to config the required components.

Now I know that I need at least the following:

Ubuntu Server edition - I have version 6.10
Postfix - MTA
Anti-Virus - Avast or Clamav
Fetchmail
SpamAssassin

I can download and install, but configuring - there I am a novice.

Assistance in this would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Pierre Joubert

[HermanAB]

The best howto guides are on the postfix web site.

Cheers,

Herman

[nix4me]

Look on howtoforge. There are some guides there for Ubuntu and Debian.

[pierrej]

Hi,

Thanks for the redirects to the tutorial sites, will have a good look at them.




It appears that webmin is more useful than I thought. I accidently came across the wiki site while doing searches this morning and it seems it enables a very nice gui configuration for everything that I need. I just need the relevant modules for webmin to be able to do the configs. For me as a novice, this is fine. :)

Will give this a try and see how it goes.

Thanks for the comments.:-D