SMTP mailserver 1

[samsonx]

I've been assigned the task (at my work) of switching our Windows servers over to Linux servers (due to overwheelming M$ costs). I am using RedHat beacuse I am most comfortable with it. I have already done the fileserver successfully and will be doing the mailserver shortly.

What I am after is an SMTP mailserver. I have searched around and found a few mailservers, however I would like some opinions or views on any you have used or like (preferably free, but am not too fussed)

These are the ones I have found am are looking into:

Xmail-

http://www.xmailserver.org/

JAMS-

http://www.kimble.co.uk/jams/

CommuniGate Pro-

http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/

Courier-

http://courier.sourceforge.net/

Thanks heaps!

 

[thedaver]

qmail is an outstanding SMTP server.

extensively documented and step-by-step build instructions here:

http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html

appropriate page of all sorts of links about it:

http://www.qmail.org/

I always recommend that users view this marvelous URL to understand how to install it with a lot of bells and whistles.

http://www.pipeline.com.au/staff/mbowe/isp/webmail-server.htm

You will enjoy this free, secure, and efficient SMTP MTA.

Surfinbox.com Business Internet Services - National Dialup, DSL, T-1 and more.

http://www.surfinbox.com/business/

 

[AP81]

I second the daver. Follow his links, they are all very informative and will set you on the right track.

I also like Kerio (

http://www.kerio.com/us/kms_home.html),

but it isn't free.




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[pansophic]

I prefer postfix and ipop3d for a mail server. They come bundled with your RedHat distro.

There is a significant amount of configuration information for them on the net.


pansophic

 

[acidkewpie]

throwing another one into the works, i think

http://exim.org

is so so easy to configure. i replaced my sendmail installation with exim a few months back, and it's been superb ever since, adn has a coupl of great admin apps which display mail queues and throughput etc... and of course there's qmail or postfix. Other than those four... nah...

 

[lullysing]

I have postfix installed on my distro, and one good thing going for it is the fact that it's "sendmail backwards compatible" by integrating a "sendmail" command that goes thru postfx.. so old scripts will work without having to mess with them.


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[creativedr]

Maybe you also want to check SocketMail Pro, its based on PHP though. It has SMTP + POP3 server.

http://www.socketmail.com

Cheers

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Khairul

http://www.SocketMail.com

 

[MasterPi]

can postfix acutally be set up to serve SMTP/POP3? i read thru some of the documentation and it is very confusing

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[flugh]

I wanted to follow up that excellent pipeline.com.au link with a derivative with a few more bits:

http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/howto_qmail_vpopmail.php

It credits the link posted by thedaver, and goes on with a few more goodies. Thought it might be helpful.

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