[ale] Linux Mail Server Recomendations

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:20 pm, aaron wrote:
> I have a friend doing doctoral work in interactive web development and
> human interface design. At one point I helped him set up a Linux / Apache
> web server for posting VRML projects created by he and his students.
>
> His studies have recently necessitated a move to Baltimore. For some odd
> reason his department there couldn't provide him with an email account. He
> made the mistake of complaining about that as being somewhat aburd. Now
> they want him to set up a mail server for the department... for cheap or
> for free, of course...   to live alongside their Apache web server, which
> is unfortunately running on an eXcrement Pile box. The mail server,
> however, can be a seperate Linux box if that's the way he wants to get it
> done.
>
> This person is NOT a unix savvy command line, script config kind of guy, so
> Sendmail is probably not a solution. We've had a suggestion of qmail, but I
> wanted to ask the list if there are other email server options we should
> look into, keeping in mind that ease of configuration and maintenane are
> the important factors.

I'd recommend postfix with webmin for administration.  I've never had to edit 
the config file by hand.

Michael