[ale] Linux Mail Server Recomendations

[Tony Carter]

Wow you are one of the few that did not like qmail.  It seemed pretty 
easy to troubleshoot when I had issues with it.

Anyways, I'm also partial to postfix.

-Tony

On Sep 24, 2004, at 4:12 AM, Bob Toxen wrote:

> 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
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