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MrAndersen · Rated PG

For linux I like Debian and Mandrake but cant help you any further than that.

Exchange side Is a different story. I used to work for Phillip Morris, Pfizer, Lucent, Merck, Merial, Schering-Plough and a handfull of others doing e-mail. Many many stories. Some you dont want to know. Yikes

I would recommend a Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 with OWA. That for starters does the job. I would also recommend you own a domain and set up an A record of your machines IP address and an MX record which references that A record. This way you wont have any problems with bindback/revers lookups or your e-mail being suspect Spam. I also recommend you set up a small hosting service on the web with someone like dynamic dns and pay a small fee to have your e-mail buffered should your server be unreachable for wheatever reason because I suspect your server will be at your home. (Ip Change or Other reasons). Then its just a matter of setting your spam filter threshold and maybe adding a turf table and if you want turn on reverse lookups but there are a lot of idiot companies out there which are too dumb so reverse lookup is good but will lose legitimate mail from poorly configured companies. Some set up outgoing mail servers before registering the records so they fail bindback/reverse lookups. Idiots! You can then also tie into black hole lists and possible add additional spam control but then it starts to get costly. Spam control is a full time job with some companies. Most large ones outsource it to companies like sprint or have products like ironmail. Then you need anti virus software as well. You can also script filters for incomming mail and determine what happens to mail with no return addresses. Badmail on an smtp exchage gateway can get a little tricky. But its a good learning experience.

If I might recommend VTC training makes a very easy to learn video training for learning exchange. They have a good start on thier website to see if you like it. Sadly no one I know offers the kind of simpler training you want with step by step but It will give you a good base to start with that will make reading the book a lot easier. As for learnkey we question the guy who does the training on that None of us recall him on the exchange team at lucent and the guys I still know there dont know him either.
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