Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Well, I've spent the last week or so trying to finally get my own mailserver up and running. I finally got a static IP address and my

provider was gouging me, so I decided to try this again. I've started and stopped this project several times over the past couple of

years because I was never able to find good docs/tutorials and I never had the time to really learn something like sendmail.
A buddy o'mine pointed me to qmail and to a couple of good docs, and I'm happy to say that I am now the complete master of my

domain.
First goto www.qmail.org.... look around a bit, but proceed immediately to "Life with Qmail". I'd read this document thorougly, but

don't install qmail from here. This is just good information that you need to have to really understand what you are going to

do. qmail is a real unix-style app. Meaning that the qmail proggy really does only one thing. It doesn't do POP, it doesn't do IMAP,

it doesn't do SMTP AUTH or anything else.... but it does allow for these things to be plugged in. A couple of people have gathered
all these things into some packages, and I recommend Bill Shupp's highly. His setup instructions worked first time for me and I didn't have to go to many other places to look for more information. One thing to note is that his "toaster" uses vpopmail which is a virtual aliasing system that allows you to have qmail users that are not /etc/passwd users. This may or may not be what you need. I'm using it, by using a .qmail file in my /etc/passwd accounts to forward local mail to my vpopmail user accounts.

I'm not going to bother going into any sort of tutorial, because I used what is already there. Good Luck.   qmail main site