Question about setting up email

[Christian]

Hi,
I think I have decided to go for Debian at this time. I have already set up Asterisk and a few other things with it. Have also found a great guide written for newbies to Debian. Its in Danish. hOwever, it does not cover how to set up text based email. Fedora seem to be easy with yum by the way.
All the best and thanks,
Christian


On 2006-11-13 at 21:27 Buddy Brannan wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 08:44:42PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Fedora comes out of the box with outbound mail working.
>
>Technically true, but if you're on an ISP with a pool of dynamic IP
>addresses (which is likely), it's also likely that there are mail
>servers that will not take mail that shows as originating from your
>dynamic IP's mail server. (Yes, this happened to me once.) Therefore,
>you'll have to set up sendmail (or postfix, or exim, or...) to act as
>a smarthost client; that is, relay Email to your ISP's mail
>server. (This is even aside from the issue of many ISP's blocking port
>25.) 
>
>BTW, I did it with postfix, and finding easy-to-understand
>instructions (because I'm none too bright) was a little challenging,
>but I managed it, eventually. 
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