There are definite advantages to running your corporate e-mail on Linux. This step-by-step guide explains how easy it is to set up your own e-mail server and implement advanced features.
Overview
- Covers all the information you need to easily set up your own Linux email server
- Learn how to provide web access to email, virus and spam protection, and more
- Thoroughly covers open source tools like PostFix, Courier, SpamAssassin, and ProcMail
- A step-by-step approach where the reader is taken through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate learning
Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at technically confident users and new and part-time system administrators in small businesses, who want to set up a Linux-based email server without spending a lot of time becoming expert in the individual applications. Basic knowledge of Linux is expected.
What you will learn from this book?
You will:
- Install Postfix mail transfer agent and set up an environment to send and receive email messages
- Implement the two standard email retrieval protocol services POP3 and IMAP for your mail server using Courier-IMAP
- Configure an easy-to-use open source email client Mozilla Thunderbird on your system
- Install and maintain an efficient webmail solution for your clients with SquirrelMail
- Prevent usernames and passwords from being sent in plain text, instead encrypting them to avoid eavesdroppers from intercepting valid account details
- Configure relay permissions for static as well as dynamic IP addresses, and protect your Postfix server from relay abuse
- Create mail filters, sort your incoming mail into separate folders, pre-process your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival and selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone using Procmail
- Automatically filter all the mails for spam ló“