Mail server recommendations?

[George Toft]

Resurrecting an old thread . . .

I just set up the toaster in a development environment and a production 
environment.  Once I did it in dev, and refined the instructions (and 
provided feedback to the toaster team), it took about 4 hours to deploy 
in prod (with coffee breaks and phone calls).

Very simple to deploy, and the Qmail Toaster Admin pages are awesome - I 
guess I love graphs :)

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760




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.
>