Mail Server

list user xktnniuymlla at mailinator.com
Thu Jul 27 19:53:49 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 08:00 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> 
> 
>>There is no such thing as an out-of-the-box "mail server".  You shouldn't
>>run components of a system if you're not going to use them--for instance,
>>if for some reason you decide to not use IMAP, you shouldn't have a
>>server running for that capability.
> 
> 
> Actually there is at least one that would work for a small office and
> someone
> who has to ask on a mail list about one might want to consider it:
> SME server from http://www.contribs.org.

Thanks for the tip, Les.  They happen to use qmail and djbdns, both of 
which I use.  I was interested in using it as a base for xen user 
domains, but when I revisited their site today (27Jul) this is what 
appeared:

     Fatal Error 2006 !!! bY:Dominic

Hacked?

:m)

   You could install that on a
> new box, add users with the web interface and be working faster than
> you could decide what components to use under fedora.  It actually uses
> an odd mix of things but you don't need to know much about them to
> install and use them - it's all fill-in-the-form administration.
> 




More information about the fedora-list mailing list