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asem34 · #1 11th November 2006, 16:01

I´d like to ask the community for your opinion:

Which "PERFECT SETUP" will throw a working and easy to manage EMail Server into my Linux Box (no matter distro) so I can replace a Windoz counterpart. (All "PERFECT SETUP.." + Ispconfig seem to have problems and limitations), so please my friends, help me fill in my Santa Claus Wish List:

1) I use VMWARE Server inside a WIN3K Box so no problem downlading a working image to start with.
2) A stable and up-to date pachage distro (kernel 2.6.* )with SMP capability (the last not nescessary but would be nice since most new hardware is already multi-core)
3) Multiple Domains
4) Web Server Included (to host Sites so users can manage -upload and maintain)
5) a usable WebMail
6) AV, Antispam, Graylisting, RBL and whatever can do the job of preventing grabage in with black/white lists at the domain or server level ( if another setup is nessesary to front-end this job, it would be fine)
7) Monitoring tools so SMTP and other stuff can be seen real time. (Not nescessary but a good thing to have)

If any of you have ever used a MERAKader server, you know what I mean and wish to replace, execpt that this thing just does mail, Imap, calendar bla bla, no Web hosting, all for a megabuck bill.

So, Gurus, help the community please.

falko · #2 12th November 2006, 15:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by asem34

Which "PERFECT SETUP" will throw a working and easy to manage EMail Server into my Linux Box (no matter distro)

All the perfect setups do this. All you have to do is follow them as close as possible and make sure you don't make any typos...

asem34 · #3 20th November 2006, 13:22

Well, not so.

I have tried most of the "Perfect Setups" and with NONE of them, not even with the Virtual Images, I have been able to build a Hosting server.

Here is a message I got (and have also gotten in others ) when setting up MySql with the Centos 4.4 distro:

[root@mercurio named]# netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 4997/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:879 *:* LISTEN 2393/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN 2373/portmap
tcp 0 0 192.168.15.9:domain *:* LISTEN 4861/named
tcp 0 0 mercurio.mydmain:domain *:* LISTEN 4861/named
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:ipp *:* LISTEN 2605/cupsd
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:smtp *:* LISTEN 2750/sendmail: acce
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 2652/sshd
tcp 0 0 mercurio.mydomain.:ssh ::ffff:192.168.15.104:49324 ESTABLISHED 4794/1
[root@mercurio named]# vi /etc/my.cnf
[root@mercurio named]# /etc/init.d/mysqld restart
Stopping MySQL: [ OK ]
Starting MySQL: [ OK ]
[root@mercurio named]# mysqladmin -u root password xxxxxx
[root@mercurio named]# mysqladmin -h mercurio.mydomain.com -u root password xxxxxx
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'mercurio.mydomain.com' failed
error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mercurio.mydomain.com' (22)'
Check that mysqld is running on mercurio.mydomain.com and that the port is 3306.
You can check this by doing 'telnet mercurio.mydomain.com 3306'
[root@mercurio named]# telnet mercurio.mydomain.com 3306
Trying 192.168.15.8...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.15.8: Invalid argument
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Invalid argument

asem34 · #4 20th November 2006, 13:28

By the Way,

I have two virtual addresse on eth0: |92.|68.|5.8 AND 192.168.15.9

cheers

falko · #5 21st November 2006, 15:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by asem34

[root@mercurio named]# mysqladmin -h mercurio.mydomain.com -u root password xxxxxx
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'mercurio.mydomain.com' failed
error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mercurio.mydomain.com' (22)'
Check that mysqld is running on mercurio.mydomain.com and that the port is 3306.
You can check this by doing 'telnet mercurio.mydomain.com 3306'
[root@mercurio named]# telnet mercurio.mydomain.com 3306
Trying 192.168.15.8...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.15.8: Invalid argument
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Invalid argument

That's a problem with your system, not with the tutorial. What's the output of

Code:

netstat -tap

and

Code:

hostname

and

Code:

hostname -f

?

Tripple · #6 14th October 2007, 19:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by asem34

I´d like to ask the community for your opinion:

Which "PERFECT SETUP" will throw a working and easy to manage EMail Server into my Linux Box (no matter distro) so I can replace a Windoz counterpart. (All "PERFECT SETUP.." + Ispconfig seem to have problems and limitations), so please my friends, help me fill in my Santa Claus Wish List:

All my ISPConfig servers are running in a VM.
Mandriva:
Only one problem I couldn't fix so far: Auto respond

Debian 3 and 4:
Perfect

CentOS:
Perfect installation, never used it on a production system.