Mail server recommendations?

[John Seth]

Personally, I dislike qmail, but I'm also biased, as I've always had a
grudge against any piece of software that doesn't conform to standards
;)  I guess it's the web developer in me.

Personally, I use Postfix & Courier along with MySQL to do virtual email
hosting.  With Gentoo, there's even a nice guide for getting it setup
and running:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml

HTH,

  Tony Evans



Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 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.
>