****How to setup a Linux mail server?

[John Austin]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 17:02 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:14, Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 10:13 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 04:08, Craig White wrote:
> > > > 2. I would recommend brennan's home server howto...
> > > >
> > > > http://www.brennan.id.au/
> > > >
> > > > this uses sendmail/dovecot, neither of which I use but you gotta start
> > > > somewhere
> > >
> > > Dovecot has the advantage of good on-line documentation - and a mailing
> > > list if required.
> >
> > ----
> > and perfectly acceptable for those who want to run their own mail
> > server.
> >
> True - and because the documentation is good it's not hard to set up.  I 
> collect from several email addresses for myself and my husband with 
> fetchmail, then pass it to procmail for sorting and delivering.  Dovecot then 
> runs the imap for both of us.
> 
> Another advantage to some people is its ability to handle both pop and imap.
> 
> > cyrus-imapd however, is mail server for those who want it all (mail
> > quotas, public mailboxes (a rich ACL environment), auto subscribe, auto
> > sieve, auto create (folders), high performance, non-shell users, etc.
> >
> Also comes well-recommended, though I've not used it myself.
> 
> Anne
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Using exim, cyrus-imapd (+evolution) here, bit of a learning curve, but
seems Ok, its been running for 9 months, FC5, just haven't got round to
updating the server!

John