To Build a Mail Server

I recently built a new mail server for my network and it was a long, boring process. So how better to pass the time? Make a video about the process.

I don't talk about how I put it together; that would take a long time to explain. I built this server using FreeBSD, IMAP-UW, Apache web server, squirrelmail, SpamAssassin and a few other smaller daemons. Considering my limited resources, it runs pretty well.

Click below to view my reference document I created during this process.
http://axlebath.net/blog/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• FreeBSD
• webmail
• mail
• server
• apache
• imap-uw
• imap
• squirrelmail
• SpamAssassin
• pop
• boring
• axlebath

[IMaDEM0N]

JESUS CHRIST!! do you have enough fucking 15" to 17" CRT Monitors?!? you look like you're at Norad in about 1995...Daytime TV has ALWAYS SUCKED, & IT ALWAYS WILL SUCK...It's not 1998 anymore, that's what On-Demand & Netflix Streaming over Xbox 360 are for....

[jasonmit]

@IMaDEM0N Hulu is awesome. That and I'm a slave to my DVR. I don't watch enough TV to need anymore than that.

You should see my setup at work. Got four LCD monitors in a line with my MBP on the end as the fifth. At home, I don't even have the same setup now. I'm down to one CRT monitor I use while configuring a system then it's packed away in a closet. My servers (firewall, DNS, cam & web/mail) are hidden away or in a case fashioned out of a vintage-looking suitcase, used as decor.

[supercaleb08]

poor guy you Dont have a JOB!!!!!!! :p

[jasonmit]

@supercaleb08 Anyone not a troll could easily realize I work in ITS. Web systems, to be exact.

[WatchoutXP]

"To build a Mail Server"

Not "How to Build a Mail Server"

:)

[slapmyfunkybass]

this is no tutorial on setting up a mail server

[jasonmit]

@MisterVanFailureAss It does suck. I only use external servers for outgoing. Godaddy these days. AT&T is really funky. I found the only way I can get past the port 25 block is to set up a secondary DNS server. The strange thing is I set up a firewall w/ DNS services directed internally, configured to the same exact specs as my secondary DNS server but w/o the second DNS, port 25 traffic won't pass. Haven't figured that one out yet.

[jasonmit]

@lawnside82 Well, pretty much when you send someone an email, it leaves your email provider's mail server to the recipient's provider's mail server. You can pretty much think of it as a digital version of the post office.

[lawnside82]

@jasonmit i really don't know what it does...i was serious..

[jasonmit]

@7941series Surely not as sleepy as it was for me to create.

[jasonmit]

@lawnside82 I'm guessing you're being facetious but if not, it's the server at which email is both stored and transmitted.

[lawnside82]

what does a mail server do??

[7941series]

This video is making me sleepy....