[TriLUG] mail server

[mark at thefowles.com]

Thanks everyone for your input -- I think I will try a couple of the suggestions. The university of washington imap, and then qmail using postfix as the transport --

Thanks,
Mark

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On 14 Oct 2002 11:00:17 -0400, Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:50, mark at thefowles.com wrote:
> > Tanner -
> > 
> > Thanks - I am trying to setup a pop3 mail server for the Charter High School. I tried qmail - but I am struggling (never have set up a mail server before) -- I'll look on google (my favorite search engine :-)  ) -- I just want to make sure I have enough information so that I don't wreck the site....
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Although I run qmail on my server, I'd probably recommend using
> something like postfix for the mail transport agent instead of
> qmail or sendmail.  It's much easier to setup and maintain.
> 
> For a pop3 server, I'd definitely recommend the University of
> Washington imap/pop3 server.
> 
> I'd also recommend, if you can, just taking a default distribution
> installation (it doesn't matter much which type) and starting
> with that since most distributions these days do the initial
> setup of that be default as long as you specify you're doing
> a mail server install.  All you would need to do then is
> to make sure it was secure and the individual mail parts are
> setup correctly.
> 
> Tanner
> -- 
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