Subject: Re: Linux mail server
From: Donnell Hughes (donnell.hughes@leros.net)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 12:30:52 MDT
Does anyone know of any mail servers that are LDAP-based?
> From: "Steve Moitozo" <steven@moitozo.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 21:04:51 -0700
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Re: Linux mail server
>
> 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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