[Ubuntu-be] FTP - Mail and SMTP

[Jan Claeys]

Op di, 26-09-2006 te 14:10 +0200, schreef Ivan Flo:
> As I am a newbe (or wannabe if you prefer). I installed my first Ubuntu.
> Everthing works perfectly.

Nice.  :-)


> Now I'm running an Win2003 + exchange server.
> 
> I want to setup an mail server (send&recieve) However there is not much
> documentation in Dutch. 

What mail servers to install might depend on what your needs are.  For
SMTP, most people use Postfix (which is the default MTA for Ubuntu, but
exim is also supported).  For POP3 and/or IMAP there are also several
choices, but Dovecot and Courier are supported by Ubuntu (meaning that
they are in the 'main' repository).

Remember that all those are mail servers, not groupware servers (with
calendering, etc.) like Exchange.


> On the other hand, I installed a FTP server. I can connect, but the
> system asks for User and password.
> Using root or oem with the correct password on localhost (or on another
> machine winxp) the server provides me "500 chield died".

If you want anonymous FTP, that might be an option in the configuration
file that you need to change.

What FTP server did you install?  (The default, supported FTP server for
Ubuntu is 'vsftpd'.)

BTW: if you want to transport files between your desktop and the server,
you might want to use ssh/scp/sftp instead (FTP should only be used for
anonymous downloads or if security is not important).


> 2. Make a connection with evolution to Exchange 2003

I think that works only for some configurations, e.g. it might depend on
the way you do authentication (but I have no experience with it).

Of course you need the 'evolution-exchange' plugin (but I think that's
installed by default?).


> If  I'm using this mailinglist not in the proper way, please accept my
> appoligy

This mailing list is mainly for organising and discussing the Belgian
Ubuntu community, for help in Dutch you can contact the ubuntu-nl
mailing list, the Dutch Ubuntu forum at http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/ , or
the #ubuntu-nl channel on Freenode IRC.


-- 
Jan Claeys