E-mail server suggestion.

waelaltaqi · 11-07-2006, 10:21 AM

after i got my ipcop box working as a VPN server using Open VPN extension, i thought about putting a small mail server behind my little firewall to do POP and HTTP mail. anybody have a good suggestion for a decent Linux based e-mail server?

acid_kewpie · 11-07-2006, 10:22 AM

well any of the major players are a great choice... sendmail, postfix, qmail or exim. everyone has their own biases, but they're all perfectly up to the job.

snt · 11-07-2006, 10:22 AM

I use postfix. It's pretty easy to set up and use.

-SNT

waelaltaqi · 11-07-2006, 03:22 PM

i'm going to download it and probably work on setting it up this week. anybody has a installation documentation link for postfix? i tried to read the documentation in postfix website but it looked a little complicated. any sugestions?
does postfix support web interface for end users?

snt · 11-07-2006, 04:17 PM

For web based email I use www.squirrelmail.com. I also use www.webmin.com to configure everything. It is very easy and everything is in one place. You can install the servers from there.

cs-cam · 11-08-2006, 01:16 AM

www.qmailrocks.org have a great guide for Qmail which you really can't mess up with. I used it for my first email server (I run Postfix now), once you have a better idea of how all the parts fit together, the Postfix docs aren't quite so scary

acid_kewpie · 11-08-2006, 03:44 AM

please note all of this is nothign more than a popularity contest...

snt · 11-08-2006, 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

please note all of this is nothign more than a popularity contest...

I think it may be more what people are comfortable using. They all do the job, but some are more difficult to setup then others.

-SNT