Re: Need help installing postfix on my home server

"Piotr R. Sidorowicz" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Rob,

In principle it is not too difficult to set up postfix, however there 
are incidental issues that you need to deal with for this to work.

1) you need to have a static IP address
2) you need a domain name
3) DNS and reverse DNS lookup for this address and domain must work
    (otherwise mail originating from this address will be tagged as spam
     by destination servers)
4) Your ISP shouldn't be blocking port 25
    (Rogers and others routinely do)

5) Oher security related miscellanea (sever in a DMZ, etc.)

As for the server itself, the simplest thing for a MTA newbie is to do 
is to set up Zimbra Community edition.

Regards,

Piotr

Rob Young wrote:
> I have a small home server that I want to enable outgoing mail on, so
> asterisk can send out email to me on certain events.  Unfortunately,
> I'm very clueless as to how to set this up.  How does one set up
> outgoing mail?  I'm running  a fairly current version of ubuntu
> without X.
> 
> Thanks!
> Rob


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