Linux Mail Server

[Robert Meyer]

Well, actually, you have two choices.  You can use multiple virtual domains so
that you can use the same email name in multiple domains or you can just simply
tell your server to accept mail for all of the domains in question and have a
single user name space.

Cheers!

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

> Thank you for all the responses so far. It has given me plenty of new
> material to research. 
> 
> Users will require both IMAP and POP access, as well as webmail. The
> typical setup of a web hosting environment. This means I will need to
> set it up in a virtual hosting type configuration to handle multiple
> domains.
> 
> Tim
> 
> -- 
> “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”    —Benjamin Franklin
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 14:22, Robert Meyer wrote:
> > 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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