What E-mail server

[MaxWave]

I have just installed RedHat 7.0 and upgraded to 2.4.3 kernel. I want to install a mail server here so that My friends and I can retrieve mail from anywhere. Any ideas as to which server to consider?

Thanks!

[Infested Flar]

yes u can have a mail server. many of the ISP's used Sendmail (http://www.sendmail.org). but for me i suggest a fast and secure mailserver.Qmail (http://www.qmail.org). :)

-flar-

[Neurotica]

I second Qmail, its much better then sendmail.

[MaxWave]

I have heard of Qmail. Does that allow a user to retrieve mail through a POP3 or IMAP client? I believe Qmail is only used to sendmail? In our office we use Sendmail and PostFIX. I have heard of DNS problems with Qmail. Is this so?

[milanuk]

Originally posted by MaxWave:
I have heard of Qmail. Does that allow a user to retrieve mail through a POP3 or IMAP client? I believe Qmail is only used to sendmail? In our office we use Sendmail and PostFIX. I have heard of DNS problems with Qmail. Is this so?


Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, and Qmail are SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) servers. Generally speaking, you would use one of these to facilitate _sending_ mail to your ISP for delivery, or some variation thereof. You would need something like a POP3 or IMAP server to allow users to download. There are various ones available like qpopper, Courier IMAP, and WU-IMAP.

Overall picture for a home user would be like this: use fetchmail to retrieve the mail from the ISP(s), use sendmail to deliver it to the appropriate user's mail spool, procmail to sort the mail, and redirect it to other mailboxes, kill spam, etc. and something like wu-imapd to allow your friends to access their mail from another machine. The details are what I'm still struggling w/ ;)

Monte

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