Setting up mail: need advice

Debian 3.1

[RonPK]

I've got a nice and clean machine running Debian 3.1. It will be used to host about ten web domains, each having one or two users. What I need is a daemon to handle incoming mail, POP3 to enable me to fetch mail from my home PC, and a sendmail-ish program enabling me to send mail through web applications on the server.

Despite spending a day on the net searching and reading, I'm a bit confused about what to do. Most information seems to be catered for either desktop users who need to run some GUI client or for ISP's who need to manage tons of accounts. I'll be happy just to edit some text files to add users and aliases, although a tool like Webmin would be nice.

So what should I do? Exim4 or Postfix, or just good old sendmail? Qpopper or Qmail?

Also, pointers to good tutorials to get things running would be much appreciated.

[mack]

For simplicity I would tend to go with sendmail for alowing the server to send email from system components.

If you do decide you want a GUI for webmail for example, you may want to have a look into squirellmail. Nice easy install and is fairly easy to set up with sendmail.

Mack.

[RonPK]

thx mack. I went for sendmail as you suggested, and got it running and even receiving mail after I'd been hacking the config files & reading the FAQ's for a couple of hours.

The next step is to move all my files and sites from the old server to this new one. Can't wait to see what breaks next...

[mack]

For moving the files over rsync may be your friend...

Mack.