Creating and a mail server, questions/help

[ivwshane]

Does anyone know how to create a mail server? I'm guessing DM would be the one to answer this.

I really want to create my own web based email server (like hotmail) but I'm not quite sure where to start.

So far I've downloaded and installed surgemail,
http://netwinsite.com/surgemail/

But I'm not sure what else I need.

If anyone know of an easier way let me know. Oh and I would prefer it if there was a program where I could add and delete users via windows active directory.

[adidas]

It looks like this is your next step.

http://netwinsite.com/surgemail/help/postinstall.htm

I'm not going to pretend to know what I'm talking about here, I just Googled for Surgemail help.