[ale] Linux Mail Server Recomendations

[Bob Toxen]

Frankly, I thought that Sendmail was the worst piece of junk on Linux
other than X, until I recently had to deal with qmail, that *I* think
makes Sendmail seem good.

Lots of people know how to debug Sendmail problems vs. qmail.

Postfix probably is the best of the bunch.

Bob Toxen
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:20:04AM +0000, aaron wrote:
> 
> I have a friend doing doctoral work in interactive web development and human 
> interface design. At one point I helped him set up a Linux / Apache web 
> server for posting VRML projects created by he and his students.
> 
> His studies have recently necessitated a move to Baltimore. For some odd 
> reason his department there couldn't provide him with an email account. He 
> made the mistake of complaining about that as being somewhat aburd. Now they 
> want him to set up a mail server for the department... for cheap or for free, 
> of course...   to live alongside their Apache web server, which is 
> unfortunately running on an eXcrement Pile box. The mail server, however, can 
> be a seperate Linux box if that's the way he wants to get it done.
> 
> This person is NOT a unix savvy command line, script config kind of guy, so 
> Sendmail is probably not a solution. We've had a suggestion of qmail, but I 
> wanted to ask the list if there are other email server options we should look 
> into, keeping in mind that ease of configuration and maintenane are the 
> important factors.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas!
> peace
> aaron