[huskerlug] Re: linux email servers.

What about setting up some phpBB or something?

Steve wrote:

>>I've set up Qmail for internal company projects before at Lester and it
>>was easy to setup if you followed the instructions.  There is lots of
>>documentation available for it.  I love the Maildir format versus the mbox
>>format for storing mail.  It is also very damn secure from everything I've
>>seen and done.
>>    
>>
>
>I have to agree with Eric here.  I've used qmail several times before, and 
>it's very easy to setup if you follow "Life with qmail" by Dave Sill.  And, 
>as Eric mentioned, it's very secure (one of the most important factors to 
>me).  
>
>SpamAssassin works pretty good too from my experience with it.  Probably the 
>only down side is that it may be too much over head for a really high volume 
>mail server since it's Perl based (vs. a compiled language).  However, I 
>haven't ran into a problem with any of the mail servers I've configured it 
>on.  One of my friends was using it at an ISP and it handles 25,000+ e-mails 
>per day on a single CPU box (can't remember the exact speed though).
>
>Courier-Imap is a pretty good choice if you want IMAP access.  I would 
>personally avoid any of the IMAP servers that have "WU" or "UW" in their 
>name.  If you only need pop3 access, stick with the pop3 sever that comes 
>with qmail as it works very well.
>
>For AV software, there are a few options that work with qmail.  Qmail-scanner 
>supports a wide variety of AV software including f-prot and clam.  It also 
>makes it easy to integrate SpamAssassin with qmail.
>
>For web based interfaces, I think both squirrel mail and IMP are nice and have 
>a lot of features.  Neither were too difficult to setup IIRC.  It's been 
>awhile since I've used either one though, so I can't really give a 
>recommendation of one over the other.
>
>  
>



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