What to learn to pick up mail?

Question

Exim

Situation: there is an OS, Debian.
Purpose: to make a mail server (POP3, SMTP) + web interface.
Maybe someone has a link to some working manuals?
I tried to do according to the manuals that I found myself (Exim + Dovecot), but it didn’t really work out. The maximum that I could do was to send a message that got into Gmail's spam.
Tell me where to start and what to read? Do not offer manuals for Exim or Postfix, you need a short description for deploying the service.
PS: What is better, Exim or Postfix?

Answer 1

Do you need to set up a server yourself?
It will not be easier to use Google Apps www.google.com/apps/intl/ru/business/index.html
or Yandex Mail pdd.yandex.ru/domains_add/

Answer 2

Postfix + Dovecot + MySQL + Spamassassin + spamass-milter + Postfixadmin + Roundcubemail
Well, if you have no experience, a week or two will go away, of course
, or some CommuniGate thread

Answer 3

“Which is better, Exim or Postfix?”
Exim.
“Tell me where to start and what to read? Do not offer manuals for Exim or Postfix»
I want to learn how to swim, what should I do? Do not offer swimming.

Answer 4

The question for “raising mail” is not only about the server itself, your letter got into spam on gmail rather due to the necessary records in the DNS and (possibly) not a static IP (including the lack of a PTR record for this IP). So if you are not going to “play around”, but are going to live with this mail, then I advise you to sort out this issue as well.

Answer 5

How I raised the mail server
using 2 methods
www.odmin4eg.ru/2009/ubuntu-mail-server/