Free Linux Tutorials

I.    Introduction

This document will discuss installation and configurations how-to on setting up POP3 using Dovecot (www.dovecot.org), SMTP using Sendmail (www.sendmail.org), Email Security System using MailScanner (www.mailscanner.info)  and a Web-based front-end to MailScanner using Mailwatch (mailwatch.sourceforge.net)

II.    Planning the Installation

System Requirements:

a.    Linux Operating System (Kernel 2.2 and later)
b.    Apache Web Server
c.    Perl and perl modules
d.    GCC
e.    MySQL
f.    Vi editor
g.    PHP (w/ MySQL & GD Support)
h.    DBD
i.    DBD-MySQL
j.    wget
k.    unzip/unrar
l.    Dovecot
m.    Sendmail
n.    MailScanner/ClamAV/SpamAssassin
o.    Mailwatch

Linux.org presented one of the most detailed important events in the history of the Linux operating system development

1983
September    Richard M. Stallman announces the GNU Project, an attempt at creating a completely free operating system.

1984
January    Work begins on the GNU operating system

1985
October    Free Software Foundation established as a non-profit organization to promote the development of Free Software. Sponsors the GNU Project.

1987
January    Computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum publishes the textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation which includes a copy of a teaching version of Unix called Minix.
December    Larry Wall releases version 1.0 of Perl