Setting up Linux as a Mail Server

One of the ways to set up Linux as an email server (there are lots and lots of ways) is as follows:

RedHat 6.2+
Install sendmail
install the imap RPM which contains pop3 and imap
set up inetd.conf or xinetd to allow access to pop3 and imap

# Pop and imap mail services et al
imap    stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd	imapd
#pop-2   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd	ipop2d
pop-3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd	ipop3d

Restart inetd (/etc/rc.d/init.d/inetd restart) or (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart).

You should now be able to configure a mail client (netscape, outlook, ...) to attach to the mail server either through pop3 or imap.

Setting up Linux as a Mail Client for MS Exchange

Get the latest Fetchmail 5.8.0+
http://www.fetchmail.org

Configure it with the address and login information to your imap exchange server.

Get an LDAP client in order to be able to look at the global address book (netscape, staroffice, kldap, gq, others).

I know this section is very short, but getting it to work is pretty simple - especially with fetchmail.

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