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

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:47:58 +0000, MarkH wrote:

> 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.

Not meaning to play the distro switch game here, but I just setup a
machine like what you described... fetchmail to get the mail from the
ISP and spamassassin to weed out the spam. The scanned email is held by
qpopper until the other machines get the mail from there. That particular
configuration is very simple with Debian Sarge. Exim is the default MTA,
and qpopper is the popserver. Then you add fetchmail and whatever other
goodies that you may want.

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