[ale] Linux Mail Server Recomendations

[Bob Toxen]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:54:18PM -0400, Tony Carter wrote:
> Wow you are one of the few that did not like qmail.  It seemed pretty 
> easy to troubleshoot when I had issues with it.
I just went through my first experience with qmail this week, moving someone's
server with about 100 virtual hosts to a new hardened linux system.

The documentation for qmail I found to be worthless.  The debugging messages
useless, and the software flaky.  I'll never voluntarily use it again.

> Anyways, I'm also partial to postfix.

> -Tony
Bob

> 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