Subject: Re: Linux mail server
From: Steve Moitozo (steven@moitozo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 22:04:51 MDT
I'm doing the same research. I have liked different things about
Sendmail,Postfix, and Qmail. I have installed and tried both Sendmail &
Postfix, and I'm just about to install qmail. Qmail has a lot of good
press. Hotmail uses it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darron Froese" <darron@froese.org>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: Linux mail server
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Robert Vogt IV wrote:
>
> > What freeware/shareware mail software package would anyone recommend
for
> > my situation:
> >
> > Web Hosting company, need to establish large number of POP3 or IMAP
> > email accounts by domain.
>
> Cyrus provides pop3 and imap services:
>
> <http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/>
>
> Postfix provides the SMTP services:
>
> <http://www.styx.org/postfix/start.html>
>
> > Want to be able to maintain accounts separate from UNIX users.
>
> No problem - having a UNIX user account doesn't necessarily mean that you
> have a Cyrus account - they can be separate. It's all how you set it up.
>
> > Provide catch-all functionality.
>
> If you mean that all mail for a certain domain will go to a certail local
> mailbox, Postfix will provide that feature (using the virtual table).
>
> > ? Essentially, a feature set similar to Eudora's latest mail server,
but
> > for YDL (and inexpensive). Can sendmail do all of this? What about
qmail.
>
> Sendmail can do the SMTP part of this, but then you have to deal with .mc
> and .cf files - yuk. If you are using Postfix, there is a single main
> configuration file "main.cf" that's human readable and understandable.
>
> I haven't tried qmail so I can't really vouch for it - some people swear
> by it - some people just swear at it's author. I'm *very* happy with
> Postfix and would suggest you try it.
> --
> Darron
> darron@froese.org
>
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