how to set up my home Linux server as a mail server?

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian Conway)]

> Thanks for the tip on IMAP.  I got it installed, thought the imapd daemon
> doesn't seem to be running.  Where do I go from here for documentation on
> starting it and configuring it to be my mail server?  My stupid Red Hat
book
> doesn't have anything about it, and there is no imap man page and the
imapd
> man page is just a small thing.  So where do I go from here? Thanks.

You should be able to uncomment the imap line in /etc/inetd.conf and have it
up and running fine from there after restarting inetd.

-b



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