Re: Which MTA to use?
first of all you have to understand that the MTA has nothing to do with POP3, a MTA will only do (E)SMTP
If you want to do the quick&dirty approach (which is not very scalable and secure) you could simply add each user as a real user to the system, and create aliases from the first.last@domain.com to the actual username on the box. If you then install a pop-daemon (pop3d in debian iirc) your users can get their mail via POP3 using their system-username and -password. Et voila, on the MTA-side everey MTA I know is capable of aliases, so there should be no problems. For ease of configuration you should consider using the debian-standard exim for this purpose.
The tricky part starts when you don't want your mailusers to also have a system-account, I'll have this to do myself in the near future...
hth,
&rw
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:56:06 CST, "Brooks R. Robinson" writes:
>Greetings,
> I am looking at changing an in-house e-mail system from an ugly combina
>tion
>of outsourced collection/forwarding and JSMail on an NT server to linux. We
>have an ADSL line coming in, and I can handle all of the DNS and network
>stuff through the firewall, but I drop the ball at mail. We have about 100
>clients using Microsoft Outlook, but our legacy address format is
>first.last@domain.com. I can't change the address format, and I'd like to
>leave POP3 in place. Which MTA is the best given my limitation?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brooks
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