[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic email server

[Chris Cox]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:47 -0500, richard witt wrote:
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> Personally for the MTA piece i would strongly suggest that you use
> Postfix. IMO the configuration is quite simple compared to most MTA's
> and its in plain english. Usually the default config file
> (/etc/postfix/main.cf) is quite heavily documented and it does not
> take much to get it sending/receiving email. For client access portion
> Dovecot, again IMO, is also very simple to setup for pop/imap access.

I second the use of dovecot if you want something very simple to setup.

With regards to postfix, I USED to think that postfix was easy (not
saying that it can't be easy), but went to a postfix class and learned
that you can literally have 10's of thousands of configuration
parameters at a large site (making sendmail look easy).

But, I in general, postfix is easy to setup (for an SMB, no problem),
and I do use dovecot vs. the others just for ease of setup.