[ale] Linux Mail Server Recomendations

[Matthew Brown]

Myself, I am very partial to postfix.  I've set it up a couple dozen 
times, and have found it to be very configurable and useful.  I 
recommend it.

Matthew Brown, CorData
Linux Solutions for Small Business
o: 770-795-0089
e: matthew.brown at cordata.com



Bob Toxen wrote:

>Frankly, I thought that Sendmail was the worst piece of junk on Linux
>other than X, until I recently had to deal with qmail, that *I* think
>makes Sendmail seem good.
>
>Lots of people know how to debug Sendmail problems vs. qmail.
>
>Postfix probably is the best of the bunch.
>
>Bob Toxen
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>On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:20:04AM +0000, aaron wrote:
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>
>>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.
>>
>>Thanks for any ideas!
>>peace
>>aaron 
>>    
>>
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