[ale] mail server program

[Brian K. Murphy]

I see that this is the case, but my arguement would be that there HAS to be
something better.  It should not be this difficult to administer a mail
system.  I should be able to do it simple from a command line, a gui and
remotely through the web (not the most secure, but sometimes necessary).

And FREE of course :)  Sendmail pro pretty much does all the above, but cost
almost 1000 bucks.


Keith

----- Original Message -----
 From: "Eric Z. Ayers" <eric.ayers at mindspring.com>
To: "Brian K. Murphy" <bmurphy at powerh.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 8:37 PM
Subject: [ale] mail server program


> Kevin,
>
> I think that you can do this with the 'virtualusertable' feature of
> sendmail, but I wouldn't characterize it as 'clean' or 'easy to
> administer', unless you like editing text files and running 'tail' on
> a file.
>
> Usually, unix admins end up writing scripts to administer their
> sendmail stuff once they are happy with the strategy they have adopted
> for doing whatever it is they want to do. (or something like storing
> the info in a DB and writing a dump from the DB into a textfile that
> sendmail can read)
>
>
> -Eric.
>
> Brian K. Murphy writes:
>  > I currently run a NT based mail server (I-mail by Ipswitch).  It is a
royal
>  > pain in the butt to administer.  Not to mention I just don't like NT
>  > software.  So...here is what I want to do.  I need to set up a Linux
based
>  > mail system.  I have looked at sendmail, qmail and a few others.  One
thing
>  > I am very confused about is "virtual domain" support.  Under just about
any
>  > NT mail program you can receive mail for multiple domains....powerh.net
and
>  > perdido.com for example.  I don't really see that under any Unix
programs,
>  > and if I do see it, it seems to be very kludgy.  You can trick sendmail
to
>  > get mail for multiple domains, but everyone in all domain must have a
>  > distinct mailbox ...for example with the two domains listed above you
>  > couldn't have bob at powerh.net and bob at perdido.com on the same system
because
>  > they would have the same mailbox.  Am I all wrong about this, or is
there a
>  > program that provides a good, clean, easy to administer, not to complex
to
>  > install, solution to this??
>  >
>  > Keith Murphy
>  >
>  > PowerHouse Communications
>  >
>
>