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Documentation Summary: Fedora Core Server Installation (HOWTO)

Lead Writer:  Miles Brennan

= Sendmail Server =

Versions

 * sendmail: 8.13.6
 * dovecot: 1.0
 * clamav: 0.88.2
 * clamav-milter: 0.88.2
 * spamassassin: 3.1.3

Sending emails to multiple recipients scattered around the world these days is such an easy everyday task, that its hard to image life without it. Sending an email through the Internet uses many different protocols and applications that all work seamlessly to ensure your message reaches its end destination.

This chapter will provide assistance in the configuration of your own server for sending and receiving emails, and will also provide details on some extra applications to ensure your system remains secure and relatively virus free. In chapter 13, we will configure a webmail application which provides a means to send and receive email while away from home. To make proper use of an email system requires the server to be configured with a fully registered Internet domain name; DNS is used extensively for email. In chapter 20 we will configure LDAP to provide our network with a share address book (with SSL) to be used by internal and/or roaming clients.

Before we begin, here are some of the basic components that help to make up the email world:

Procmail is normally installed and running on most systems already so it won't be covered here.

= Basic Configuration =

= Dovecot IMAP Server =

= Starting The Services =

= Preventing Abuse =

= Full SSL/TLS Encryption =

= Clam Antivirus =

= SpamAssassin =