Mail server recommendations?

[Eric "Shubes"]

Kenneth wrote:
> I'm beginning the process of learning about MTAs, MUAs, and whatever all
> those other acronyms are.  I have never had the need to set one up, and still
> don't really have a need but I thought I would add to my knowledge.
> 
> What are some good packages I should be looking at?  I did a quick install of
> qmail on Gentoo, but it doesn't seem to want to start up, it's looking for a
> whole bunch of files in /var/qmail/control that don't exist.  I'm not
> knocking qmail for this, at least yet.  I still have to look over the
> documentation more thoroughly, probably something I didn't do.
> 

The simplest MTA available (TTBOMK) is http://www.qmailtoaster.com.
I use it myself, and have made a few contributions, so I'm admittedly 
biased. It is only available on RPM-based distros at present (CentOS, 
Fedora, RHEL, Mandriva, SuSE), but I'd like to see someone port it to Debian.

This is a full fledged MTA, and includes many features and packages that 
would otherwise take weeks to learn and configure. With QmailToaster, you 
can be up and running in less than a day, with minimal previous experience. 
There are other qmail toasters available, but this one is tops. It's made 
for noobies.

It'd be nice if someone were to create a toaster based on postfix, but I 
don't know of one.

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-Eric 'shubes'