[GRLUG] setting up a simple test email server

[Patrick Goupell]

On 03/24/2013 10:35 PM, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> At work I run a demo environment (All Windows Servers) and on my 
> Domain Controller I leverage Mail Enable for my demo mail server. 
>  Mail Enable provides a very simple SMTP and POP access along with 
> webmail.  There is a MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in that 
> allows for administrating the system.
>
> So I'm running several Ubuntu VMs at home that I play around with, but 
> would like to setup a simple internal mail server.  If you Google 
> Ubuntu and Mail server you get like 11000 results.  So I'm hoping you 
> guys could help out with this.
>
> Basically be able to send and receive email all within my local 
> network (setup Kontact to send an email to a user also within my local 
> system) and nothing external or outbound.
>
> I hope this makes sense what I am asking

Are you familiar with howtoforge.com?  It is a great place to get 
tutorials on how to set up a lot of different stuff.

There are many good email setup tutorials there.

Give them a look.

Patrick