Re: Mail Services

From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+lists_at_uni-x.org)
Date: 09/15/05

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:20:59 +0200

    Am Do, den 15.09.2005 schrieb Randall J. Berry um 1:05:

    > I'm setting up mail services on my box I'm looking for opinions on what
    > combination SMTP/POP/Mail AV/Spam Filtration works best together.
    >
    > I currently have Sendmail, Postfix and Exim installed I also have ClamAV
    > and Spam Assassin along with the rest of the 'everything' install
    > package from the Fedora install.

    Use the MTA you are most familiar with. Asking for opinions will not
    help you to manage any of those 3 any better, but even may call for a
    religious MTA war. I like Sendmail, others Postfix or Exim. Each of them
    has advantages and disadvantages. (No, I don't call for comments by
    qmail patch assassins ;)
    ClamAV is a really good anti-virus application. SpamAssassin can help
    you too to lower the amount of crap filling your inbox.

    > The primary function is going to be so that I can pull all of my mail
    > from multiple accounts/servers and hold it locally, then just use a pop
    > client to read it from a local server. I also want local control over
    > spam and AV as well. For sending mail I plan to set up the MTA to login
    > to the server associated with the outgoing from address for each
    > account. Nothing fancy, just for the learning experience more than
    > anything.

    That outgoing mail scenario kicks out Postfix which does not support
    sender based routing. Sendmail and Exim can do so.

    Alexander 

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