[TriLUG] Mail Server options.

[Ben Pitzer]

On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 23:55, Rick Steeves wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently working at getting to know mail servers, and towards that end 
> am starting in on trying to get a mail server set up for my own personal 
> use. Currently the box is RedHat 7.2, primarily because that's the most use 
> to me at work.
> 
> Everything I read about sendmail is kinda scary (not being a linux expert), 
> so I've been looking at other options. The two I've looked at in reasonable 
> depth are qmail and postfix, with a brief review of squirrelmail and exim 
> (which seem too limited to me).

I've got Postfix installed, and working like a dream.  It wasn't overly
difficult, and I highly recommend it.  It also seemed to me that exim is
a tad too limited for my purposes, but Postfix filled the bill
perfectly.  It's not too difficult to configure, and you can have it
installed and running in very short order.

> Of them all, qmail seems more like what I want, but I thought I'd see what 
> experience others have had with it. Things I'd like to accomplish:
> pop3 mail, web mail (both preferably with a secure connection), mailing 
> list, Antivirus scanning, real time blacklisting.
> 
> qmail seems to have those functions built in (a theoretical plus) or have 
> other apps that will accomplish that (amavis for antivirus, omail for web 
> mail, rbl/MAPS for blacklisting). Minuses are that some of the add-ons for 
> qmail appear to be only for Unix, not linux, and I don't have the knowledge 
> to get between the two.
> 
> Any other thoughts?
> 
> Thanks
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Rick Steeves
> ricks at duke.edu                          http://www.sinister.net
> 
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