Creating an email server

[Donkie]

Alright, I own an unmanaged VDS, running XAMPP (Apache) as webserver. Right now though, no emails are being sent from PHP. I figured I probably needed some sort of emailserver, so I looked around and installed hMailServer. However, I can't get it working, it doesn't send emails, I'm very unsure on how to set it up properly, with ports, IP addresses, hostnames, etc.

I'd either need help setting this up, or help setting some other emailing server up.

[Edge100x]

XAMPP is not secure for production purposes by default, so make sure that you lock that down carefully.

Is this a brand new VDS? If so, this would apply: http://www.nfoservers.com/forums/viewto ... =47&t=4579

[Donkie]

I'm aware xampp is a shitty method but it was the only thing I'm familiar with. What do you suggest as alternative? Just hosting the webserver without any interface?

And no, we've had the VDS for 2 months now.

[rymax99]

I really wouldn't use XAMPP, it's terribly insecure, and outdated. My personal advice for running web servers would be to use Linux as it's more stable and just better for web serving (IMO it's better all around for servers..). If that's not possible, you could attempt to install your needed services from PHP and Apache from the official sources. If that's not possible, you could always just use a NFO web hosting plan.

[MPQC]

I set mine up using this tutorial quite some time back (at least I'm fairly confident...) - http://unlockforus.com/roundcube-webmai ... ailserver/. Seemed to work fine on Windows 2008.

If you check around on the same website, it'll also have a section for hardening it (ie make email/mysql run on it's own user accounts, only access to a web partition, security stuff etc etc).

Posted that awhile ago. Should help.