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[Tensop]

Hi guys, i'm just wondering how to go about tackling this.

Basicly, i'm running a forum and a few other things on a futurehosting VPS plan which is running centos.

we changed to futurehosting because our shared hosting was definately not coping with it, so we had to make a quick changeover... unfortunately i dont have too much experience with setting up mailservers in linux(which seems to be a massive complicated mess involving a million different services).

i'm wondering if anyone knows any guides to setting up a mail server + have a managable web interface to add user accounts/setup forwarding rules and such that works well with centos?

or better yet, is futurehosting capable of doing it for me

[seankoons]

Originally Posted by Tensop

Hi guys, i'm just wondering how to go about tackling this.

Basicly, i'm running a forum and a few other things on a futurehosting VPS plan which is running centos.

we changed to futurehosting because our shared hosting was definately not coping with it, so we had to make a quick changeover... unfortunately i dont have too much experience with setting up mailservers in linux(which seems to be a massive complicated mess involving a million different services).

i'm wondering if anyone knows any guides to setting up a mail server + have a managable web interface to add user accounts/setup forwarding rules and such that works well with centos?

or better yet, is futurehosting capable of doing it for me

You have a managed VPS plan with them? If so, take advantage of it. Only FH knows what works best on their servers and they most likely do these types of setups on a daily basis.

[Captain Marvel]

Originally Posted by Tensop

Hi guys, i'm just wondering how to go about tackling this.

Basicly, i'm running a forum and a few other things on a futurehosting VPS plan which is running centos.

we changed to futurehosting because our shared hosting was definately not coping with it, so we had to make a quick changeover... unfortunately i dont have too much experience with setting up mailservers in linux(which seems to be a massive complicated mess involving a million different services).

i'm wondering if anyone knows any guides to setting up a mail server + have a managable web interface to add user accounts/setup forwarding rules and such that works well with centos?

or better yet, is futurehosting capable of doing it for me

I honestly don't understand why you didn't call your host in the first place to ask questions that are obviously their responsibility to answer. If you have a managed VPS, this should have been taken care of for you. If you don't have managed, you're out of your league, so you should upgrade to something you can handle.

I see from their price list that the difference is just five dollars a month.

With proper setup, you should be able to configure our email accounts in minutes, with either cPanel or Plesk. It's really no big deal.

[Tensop]

Originally Posted by Gene Steinberg

I honestly don't understand why you didn't call your host in the first place to ask questions that are obviously their responsibility to answer. If you have a managed VPS, this should have been taken care of for you. If you don't have managed, you're out of your league, so you should upgrade to something you can handle.

I see from their price list that the difference is just five dollars a month.

With proper setup, you should be able to configure our email accounts in minutes, with either cPanel or Plesk. It's really no big deal.

Well, i am on the managed plan;however i assumed it was more towards the side of 'if something screws up', not actual software installation and such;


I am able to configure a mailserver(done it a few times before with gentoo), but under centos it seems to be quite annoying, that combined with not having the time to get right into it means i cannot do it

[Captain Marvel]

Originally Posted by Tensop

Well, i am on the managed plan;however i assumed it was more towards the side of 'if something screws up', not actual software installation and such;


I am able to configure a mailserver(done it a few times before with gentoo), but under centos it seems to be quite annoying, that combined with not having the time to get right into it means i cannot do it

Well, then it doesn't hurt to ask them. And if they aren't giving you the service you need to get the services running, go elsewhere.

[futurehosting]

Nah, go ahead and submit a ticket to our support team and we can help you out. If it is managed, we will support anything already installed on the VPS upon delivery - this includes mail setup.

[Tensop]

well, i think i've figured it out via cpanel. (bit of background here - cpanel wasnt installed and for some reason and a copy of plesk that i could not log onto was on there, anyhoo the site needed to go up straight away, so had to do everything manually)

i created an account in cpanel, which overwrote my httpd.conf(restored the backup) to fix all the directory links in the apache conf, then logged into the newly created cpanel account, created the email accounts, fired off some test emails and all good(except for a few little things below)

i cannot receive emails on these accounts because the dns entries for the mx records arent set up. according to some cpanel documentation the default alias needed is mail.yourhosthere.com, so do i create an aname pointing mail.yourhosthere.com in the dns zone file, then an mx record pointing to mail.yourhosthere.com ?

The dns server for the site is currenltly on zone edit

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