Re: mail server

[Willi Dyck <wdyck@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:39:31PM -0800, Paul A. Thomas did this all over the keyboard:
> I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian
> ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list
> / what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH ).
> I had heard about Sendmail and have visited their web site, however did
> not see anything approaching a quick and dirty method to get up and
> running.  Actually didn't see a manual at all.  I presume the man page
> within the application itself would be what I'm after.
> The more I look the more it looks like Sendmail is a project.
> Which, if any, Linux based Email server applications require the least
> tuning to get operational?  Or are they all fairly 'configurable' and
> thus time consuming?  And of those recommended should we avoid any due
> to illogical security defaults as with anything Microsoft puts out for
> Email?

Hi,

if you care about security (and you should, think of your company), then
qmail is your choice. qmail is very modular, fast and small. it nearly
runs nothing as root. it is very well documented.
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html

one thing with qmail is, it is not so easy to setup. but once you got it
up and running, you will love it. there is a deb-src pakage available to
install under debian.
cheers,
Willi

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