email servers

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Sat Aug 27 04:06:25 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 21:20, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 27.08.2005 schrieb David L um 1:44:
> 
> Please do not post HTML formatted list mails. Thanks.
> 
> > I am setting up a web/ftp/email server with fc4, and on this server
> > there will be many web sites. All is good except for the choice of
> > email server software. I will need to receive and transport mail for
> > usere in each domain. Can anyone help me with this. Tanks Dave
> 
> That is a wide field and you certainly will have to study some
> documentation first. Fedora ships Sendmail and Postfix (Core) and Exim
> (Extras) as MTAs. All 3 have of course the ability to be set up for
> virtual hosting (multiple domain handling). The question which of those
> 3 to use (or even another different one) may quickly lead to some kind
> of religious, flamed discussion. So you better get an impression
> yourself by reading on the MTAs homepages or simply choosing the one you
> are familiar with. As POP3/IMAP servers Fedora comes with dovecot (Core)
> and Cyrus-IMAPd (Extras). Those 2 can be used with multiple domains too.
> dovecot is less complex than Cyrus-IMAPd, last one is most powerful.
> Further software to be used with mail hosting is an anti-virus tool like
> ClamAV (Extras) and a spam classification tool like SpamAssassin (Core).
> 
> Do yourself, your customers and other mail users a favour and only start
> running a virtual hosting mail server if you have profound knowledge, in
> general and about the different mail applications aspects in specific.
> 
> Alexander
> 

And read up on greylisting in addition to spamassassin.  It will block
better than 98% of the spam out there with little consumption of system
resources.




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