So unfortunately, I've been tasked with setting up an Ubuntu server to send and receive email (amongst other things). My friend is hosting the Ubuntu VM on his box, but has only done limited setup.

This is weird, when i do a apt-get install postfix .... dpkg goes thru configuring and tries to add a user and group. <BR><BR>So it asks for a password two times (why, wtf, im root already)<BR> ...

Get a basic mail server running using Postfix as the mail transfer agent (MTA). We may earn from vendors via affiliate links or sponsorships. This might affect ...

Learn how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. The author also demonstrates the installation and ...

Unless you're a sysadmin you don't generally have to worry that much about getting email delivered, you just hookup your GUI email client to your external email account and you're done. But what if ...

Explores some of the principles of configuring Postfix to accept or reject messages before they ever get delivered to a mailbox Spam is a growing problem for most people who have had an e-mail address ...

Please note that this book is based on is based on Postfix 2.1, later versions of Postfix have new daemons not discussed in the book. This chapter describes how ...