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= Introduction =
= Introduction =
Alpine is well suited for hosting email-, web- or other network-related services.<br>
Alpine is well suited for hosting email, web or other network services.<br>
Your biggest task is to figure out what you want your system to do.
Your biggest task is to figure out what you want your system to do.


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=== Processing mail - Virus protection ===
=== Processing mail - Virus protection ===
* [[Protecting_your_email_server_with_Alpine#Setting_up_the_Virus_scanner|Setting up ClamAV for Postfix]] | ''Referrers to [[Setting_up_postfix_with_virtual_domains]] instructions''
* [[Protecting_your_email_server_with_Alpine#Setting_up_the_Virus_scanner|Setting up ClamAV for Postfix]] | ''Refers to [[Setting_up_postfix_with_virtual_domains]] instructions''


=== Processing mail - Spam protection ===
=== Processing mail - Spam protection ===

Latest revision as of 01:00, 9 January 2024

Introduction

Alpine is well suited for hosting email, web or other network services.
Your biggest task is to figure out what you want your system to do.

Preparing Alpine

First you need to get alpine up and running.
Follow the Installation instructions on how to get your Alpine booted.

If nothing else is mentioned in the below instructions, you should use the latest stable release:

Download Stable Version
Alpine 3.20.3

Mail

We split the 'Mail' section into various tasks.
One task is to gather and process mail. Some other task would be to prevent spam and virus etc.
Finally we need to make sure the user can fetch/read his mail.

Receive mail

Processing mail - Virus protection

Processing mail - Spam protection

Delivering mail to the user

Other Mail-related documents

Web

SSH

DNS

Proxy

Also see

You'll probably also want to look at Tutorials and Howtos