RE: Linux Mail Server

[Shane Harrison <shane.harrison@xxxxxxx>]

I personally use courier IMAP server and the courier webmail and am
happy with it.  Outlook performs relatively well as an IMAP client.

As an MTA I use exim mainly because I wanted to use the Maildir format
but there are plenty of good MTA's out there.  I tried qmail but found
it more difficult to setup.

Bruno Prior had previously answered a similar question with (the
archives should contain other answers):

"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."

HTH

Shane

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frost Neil [mailto:Neil.Frost@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 10:28 p.m.
> To: HomeAutoGroup (ukha_d@xxxxxxx)
> Subject: [ukha_d] Linux Mail Server
>
>
> Can anyone provide any advise please.
>
> I'm running a Red Hat 9 server behind an ADSL router. I've
> got NAT working so can serve up web pages etc.
>
> What I want to do now is configure a mail server. I want
> webmail as well as being able use outlook. Any suggestions on
> what to use etc?
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
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