need advice/help on setting up pop3 and smtp

[mattn]

im planning on setting up pop3 and smtp on my slack 8 box but i havent a clue where to start. my intentions are to be able to send/recieve mail for the domainS hosted on my linux box. any help or links to references/how-to's would be greatly appreciated :)
thanks

[element-x]

These are just suggestions but...

I've always used postfix for smtp, and pop3ad for my pop3 daemon. In the way of how-to's or references, I don't have much, but I've found that the documentation that comes with postfix explained more than enough to me, so that I could easily set it up and get my outgoing mail working in a flash.

[mattn]

thanks for the reply :)
im gonna look into postfix :)

[Craig McPherson]

Postfix is just fine, but I use Exim for SMTP and IPOP3D for POP3 and POP3-SSL (though I'm shutting off normal POP3 tomorrow). Exim as an SMTP server is quite straightforward: it has a well-commented configuration file that should explain how to edit it to your liking. IPOP3D is strictly plug-and-play for the most part -- you run it, it works. Naturally, if you want to do SSL, there's a bit more work involved with certificates and stuff.

Those are my suggestions. Please post back if you run into any problems or have any other questions.