Move to <insert here> mail server? WAS Re: Sending mail gets 'Relaying Denied' from off network.

[Jan Grant]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Eric F Crist wrote:

> OK, I'm tired of trying to configure sendmail.  I think I give up.  I've hear
> postfix and qmail recommendations the most.  I need a mail server that can do
> a couple of things for me:
>
> 1) Host multiple domains on the same server
> 2) Easy user management and control (quotas?)
> 3) I NEED MY SPAM ASSASSIN
> 3) Webmail recommendation for this mail server.
> 4) Your love and support with what I choose... ;)
>
> Sendmail, since I've used it heavily, has become too much of a burden for me.
> Please reply with a 'vote' and possibly and howtos or 'change-over'
> instructions.  If you all recall, I've failed this once before.

They'll all do this. Personally: exim (actually, multiple exims, but
I've a rather unusual setup) as MTA, cyrus as mailstore, MailScanner in
queue-to-queue mode, and silkymail as webmail client.

Unfortunately, depending on how you want to manage your users, cyrus is
one of the "heavier" imap servers out there. I love it to bits but it
can be tricky to get exactly right. You will need some scripting to tie
your directory/authentication to cyrus quotas.

You'll probably get the same story with most roll-your-own setups. There
are a number of products that claim to be email "appliances" and you
might look at those, depending on how much preexisting infrastructure
you've got for managing virtual domains and users.

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