Mail server recommendations?

[Eric "Shubes"]

John Seth wrote:
> 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.

The license is undoubtedly undesirable (who does DJB think he is?), but the 
ease of installation of the toaster overcame many hurdles that other MTAs 
have. There's a learning curve with any MTA, just a much smaller one with 
the toaster.

> 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.
>>


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-Eric 'shubes'