Linux Mail Server

[Robert Meyer]

Well, you've probably hit on the single most religious topic in Linuxland. 
There are adherents to sendmail, qmail, exim, postfix... Each has it's benefits
and tradeoffs.  I personally use sendmail.  I'm comfortable with it, I've been
working with it for a zillion years (well, maybe not a zillion but it seems
like it) and it does everything that I need.  I attach ClamAV and Spamassassin
milters to it, and use procmail to make nice maildir format mailboxes if I'm
using Courier IMAP.  Otherwise, I just let it make mbox format mailboxes and
everything just works.

Warning to the populace at large:  This IS a religious topic.  Keep responses
to technical reasoning, not "my MTA is better than your MTA 'cuz I say so and
you're a weenie for not agreeing...". :-)

We need more information from you, however.  We need to know how your users are
going to be accessing mail, whether they use the local system, directly, IMAP,
POP, webmail, etc.  We also need to know if the domains are going to have
virtual users so that if you're using things like 'info at domain1.com',
'info at domain2.org', etc. we can determine if you're going to need virtual users
or whatever.

Cheers!

Bob

--- "Timothy J. Finucane" <speljamr at speljamr.com> wrote:

> My company has decided to move our current mail servers to a Linux based
> platform. We are planning on setting up one server dedicated to being
> the mail server for multiple domains. Can anyone out here point me to
> some good reference materials I can use to learn about setting up a
> Linux mail server? Outside of sendmail, are there is there any other
> software used to run a mail server?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tim
> 
> -- 
> “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”    —Benjamin Franklin
> 
> 



		
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