My First Mail Server, I need help

@djtriptoy:

I am trying to setup my first mail server from scratch using Debian 4.0, in past VPS's this was automated through a control panel interface such as HSCOMPELTE……….

Hi,

Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but I have used both of these tutorials at some point.

http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/

http://www.qmailrocks.org/

Both of these set-ups leave you with a sophisticated mail server dealing wih multiple domains etc. and are a lot easier to follow than they first appear.

Check these resources:

http://www.howtoforge.com/

http://technichristian.net/intro/index. … tch-server">http://technichristian.net/intro/index.php?q=debian-etch-server

This is how I did mine. It may not be best practice, but it works.

http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/User:Kangaby

> http://technichristian.net/intro/index. … tch-server">http://technichristian.net/intro/index.php?q=debian-etch-server
I have tried those steps, skipping non mail related steps like httpdlight.

I can not get this to work, all I want to be able to do is send/receive via pop/smtp and possibly add webmail later. This tutorial was having me setup SSL and everything, completely wrong direction.

mail.domain.net would be my incoming and outgoing mail server address, correct?

> This is how I did mine. It may not be best practice, but it works.

http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/User:Kangaby
I don't see any mail related items, what am I missing?

I used to run exim, but have switched to using Google Apps For Your Domain. http://www.google.com/a/. It's great if all you want is to get e-mail on your domain working, but of course you don't learn much about Linux of e-mail servers in the process. Depends on your goals. There will be plenty to learn when you setup Apache / MySQL / etc later on :-)

Graham,

I am not that bad at Apache, MySQL, PHP. Ive developed websites for many years. Just completely clueless with mail servers and some DNS stuff. :lol:

I will check that out though, I atleast need to get working email for now.

Thanks!

Perhaps this will be of help…

(from thread:http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2699)

This looks like what you might have been searching for:

http://adminspotting.net/building-a-messaging-server note "Part Two - Setting Up Postfix"

I have set up Google apps and pointed my CNAME on Linode to the one specified by Google, only when I go to mail.triptoy.net it shows my main website in var/www instead of Google mail.

A check on ur dns shows that mail.triptoy.net does indeed point to triptoy.net

Are you sure that youve updated the cname properly?

And you are aware that dns takes a while to propergate though to the rest of the world from when you update it in the linode dns manager?

Cheers

Here is a screenshot of my DNS manager.

mail ghs.google.com Default Edit Remove

although my A/AAA indicates…

mail 67.18.186.137 3600 (1 hour) Edit Remove

could this be the problem?

yep, that would certinaly do it. I imagine a names override cnames..

You can't have an A record and CNAME record for the same entry; that just doesn't make sense. What will happen then is implementation specific. Nasal daemons are an option.

You could try my tutorial again. It has lots of new stuff.

Also use this. This was the basis for my mail system. Nice and simple.

http://adminspotting.net/building-a-messaging-server