Setting up my first mail server.

Hello

I just bought my first dedicated server and I have successfully configured it to be an FTP and Web server.

Now I have to setup the mail server.

What software do I need to install on my SuSE9 Pro box for a complete mail server solution?

The mail() function of PHP is working. Does this mean that its is partially setup?

Thanks for any help... I'm learning lots this weekend!!

What features do you want in particular? Is your time valuable? Would you prefer to buy a boxed solution or spend some time creating your own solution?

It means you have an outgoing SMTP server installed. If it's sendmail, you want to get rid of this and install a proper mail server. I would recommend qmail.

Embarrasing but after hours I realised I had postfix installed.

Is that good?

Apparently it's not bad. Most of my experience is with qmail though. What kind of features are you looking for in your mail server? Just straight receiving mail and downloading through POP? Or something else? Both Postfix and qmail will do this fine.

Yes just basic pop3 email will do me. So Posix is great.

Now I'm stuggling to configure PHP with IMAP to setup Horde successfully. It says it cant find the IMAP libraries even though webmin says IMAP is installed. I've tried everywhere.

I managed to install patched GD for gif support though. (legal where i live).

http://81.29.73.128/info.php

The joys of setting up a server.

Need to setup a secure server next ...

Postfix, I think you mean? You'll need to consult the postfix documentation for information on accepting mail for local accounts, as I've not done this with Postfix before.

I think I had a similar issue with Horde. In any event, the IMAP client libraries from UW IMAP suck terribly and are slow and bloated. In the end, I just installed ilohamail, which suits my needs fine.

It's quite easy: http://www.alex-greg.com/docs/apache-ssl-build.html

Thanks Alex thats very helpful.