Re: Easiest E-Mail server to setup and use?

Alan Hughes <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:o8qdnVoVhJuWQTreRVnyuA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> MarkH wrote:

>> Any suggestions for a good E-Mail server would be gratefully
>> accepted. I would like to install something on my SUSE 10 system at
>> home and learn to configure it before offering to set it up for this
>> customer.
>
> It took me about 10 minutes to set up Postfix using YaST - could have
> done it quicker but I had to take a phone call. If you don't like the
> YaST setup then use Webmin - its really your choice.

OK, I've had a wee play around with the YaST setup (SUSE 10) for mail
server and it does not seem very simple or intuitive, what have I
missed? I have no idea of whether it is collecting the mail or not and
I don't quite know what it will do with the mail if it does collect it.

The customer is not actually using SUSE on their Linux box, but if I
could setup a mail server quickly and easily with YaST then I would
advise them to either convert their Linux box to SUSE or I could setup
SUSE on a different PC.

All I need to do is pick up all the mail from a pop3 mail box and sort
it into the different mail boxes for each user, then their pop3 mail
clients need to be able to pickup that mail using the correct
username/password. The handling of outbound mail from the clients could
be handled by the mail server if it was easy enough to do, or they could
just send it directly.


The fact that there is a mail server config in YaST makes me think that
this should be easy, but I can't see where you define the mail boxes
that the mail will be put into.


In my search for answers I have come across Kerio Mail Server, has
anyone used this or seen it running? It is not a free app, but I could
have a go with a 30 day demo and if it seems good then recommend the
customer buys it.

I have found that the lack of easy to install and setup apps for certain
things to be a bit annoying. If this stuff can be done in windows then
how hard could it be to setup a nice GUI to control the required Linux
apps? Changing some settings in a config file can't be too hard from a
GUI program surely? Many things would only need a tick box or selection
from a drop down menu, which could easily result in the right command
written to the relevant .conf file.


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