Re: Mail Servers... less OT :-)

[Bruno Prior <bruno@xxxxxxx>]

postfix (using maildir mailbox format) + courier-imap + maildrop + 
sqwebmail is the easiest/fastest/most flexible combination I've come up
with. It provides everything you specified. Maildir format gives better
performance (+ ease of use over NFS, which won't be much use to you) 
than traditional mailboxes, as it avoids the issue of file locking. 
sqwebmail reads directly from the files in maildir, rather than going 
through the IMAP server, to provide a blisteringly fast webmail 
interface. It also provides an interface to maildrop, a more structured
alternative to procmail, so you can configure filtering without having 
to edit baroque config files. See http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/

Careful with standard (UW) IMAP server - it seems to be beset by 
security problems. Personally, I couldn't get cyrus working, but that 
was a couple of years ago - it's supposed to be a good option nowadays.
And avoid qmail as mail server - probably a good product but too many 
arrogant t0ssers on the mailing lists if you are looking for support. 
And haven't tried it myself yet, but I understand Spam Assassin is an 
excellent add-on to any *nix mailserver.

Cheers,

Bruno


Mark Harrison wrote:
> Can anyone recommend me a good mail server...
> 
> What I -really- want is a free Exchange clone... ie, it must have the
following capabilities:
> 
> 1: I can point Outlook at it
> 2: It supports subfolder on the SERVER
> 3: I can point a web client at it
> 4: It supports server-side rules to file messages meeting certain
criteria
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark

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