[GRLUG] setting up a simple test email server

[Jonathan Jesse]

Awesome thanks Adam,

I think one of the "nice" things for me as I setup my demo system at work
was that something simple like Mail Enable (http://www.mailenable.com/)
provides the whole setup in a simple install.

And this is a pretty newbie/dumb question but I would assume if I want mail
(smtp and pop) and webmail then there would be 2 sets of packages
(programs) to configure as well?

Also (don't want to start a flame war) but is there one Mail System
(Postfix, Cyrus) that is better (easier) to setup and configure.


On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 22:35 -0400, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Forget including "Ubuntu" in any searches, there is nothing of note that
> is distribution specific about configuring these services.  Stop
> thinking in a distribution-centric mindset.   It is Postfix, Cyrus,
> etc... *NOT* Ubuntu, CentOS, openSUSE....
>
> You'll need working DNS in your private network before anything else
> will work.  Once that is working setting up everything else shouldn't be
> anything out-of-the-ordinary.  Just make MX records to yourself for you
> test domains [example.com/org/net is allocated for this purpose].
>
> One handy trick is to sequester e-mail via Postfix rewriting.
>   <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2012/02/sequestering-e-mail.html>
>
> > 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
>
>
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> Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA
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