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B_Dilip

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Sep 29, 2008, 1:49:43 AM9/29/08
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Hi
i want an to install an email server that should be compatible with
fedora 9
and if it would be freeware then well and good enough
so plz help me out..
Thanku all in advance.

J.O. Aho

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Sep 29, 2008, 12:32:10 PM9/29/08
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B_Dilip wrote:
> Hi
> i want an to install an email server that should be compatible with
> fedora 9

as privileged user:
yum install postfix

You may even try

yum install sendmail

not sure if RedHat still includes it.


> and if it would be freeware then well and good enough

freeware ain't that good, avoid those as what will you do when the developer
stops working with it? Better you go with open source instead, as anyone can
continue to develop it even if the original developer has left the world.


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//Aho

Moe Trin

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Sep 29, 2008, 3:58:24 PM9/29/08
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail, in article
<35f5d84b-18e5-4aab...@25g2000prz.googlegroups.com>, B_Dilip
wrote:

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>i want an to install an email server that should be compatible with
>fedora 9 and if it would be freeware then well and good enough

[compton ~]$ zgrep -Ei '(exim|postfix|qmail|sendmail)' rpms.fc9-i386.gz
| cut -c33-
1336059 Apr 15 05:12 exim-4.69-4.fc9.i386.rpm
4000984 Apr 15 11:59 postfix-2.5.1-2.fc9.i386.rpm
864318 Apr 15 13:25 sendmail-8.14.2-4.fc9.i386.rpm
318924 Apr 15 13:25 sendmail-cf-8.14.2-4.fc9.i386.rpm
[compton ~]$

Why not try installing one of the three mail servers that are supplied
with Fedora 9? Did you look in the Fedora Installation Guide?

Old guy

Giorgos Keramidas

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Sep 30, 2008, 9:58:37 AM9/30/08
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:32:10 +0200, "J.O. Aho" <us...@example.net> wrote:
> B_Dilip wrote:
>> and if it would be freeware then well and good enough
>
> freeware ain't that good, avoid those as what will you do when the
> developer stops working with it? Better you go with open source
> instead, as anyone can continue to develop it even if the original
> developer has left the world.

I don't know where that came from, but if there is any case `freeware'
may be confused with `free software', then it should be noted that there
is no such problem with free software. If `freeware', on the other
hand, refers to software that is distributed gratis (without a monetary
or other form of price) and in binary only format, then things are a bit
different.

In reply to the original poster's request:

* Yes you can install a mail server with Fedora.

* You don't need `freeware' as in `gratis binaries' to do that.

* Please look at the Fedora Documentation for Sendmail,
Postfix, or Exim. These are free software or open source
solutions (as opposed to `freeare').

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