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. > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss