Re: urgent Mail Server

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Lindsay Yardley <lindsay@ebuild.net.au>:
> G'day all,
> This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my
> mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby
> thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking.
> I'd like (have to) to take over the administration myself. I'd like a
> HowTo (for dummies) on the process of administering it. And, I need to
> setup a mail server here in the next few hours, which is the *easiest*
> MTA? I would have liked to use the debian default Exim but the docs for
> fools like me are rather thin, the one I use will need to have plenty of
> simple and clear documentation, remembering I know very little about
> administering an MTA.
> Thanks in anticipation,
> (a very paniced)
> Lindsay
> 

I have written an article on setting up an e-mail server:

http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7460/uni1032893910897/ur0209o.htm

I'd appreciate feedback.  This article is basically a draft of the
e-mail chapters in a book I am writing.

Jeffrey