Linux Mail Server

[Timothy J. Finucane]

"same email name in multiple domains" - this is what I'll need to do.

Tim

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:19, Robert Meyer wrote:
> 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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