[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic email server

[richard witt]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 10:47 -0500, richard witt wrote:
> ...
> ....
> 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).

Yes that is true that Postfix can be very complicated and has more
options than i think more people need. But with that being said, to me
reading the postfix configuration file compared to reading a
sendmail.cf file is MUCH easier.