I just thought I'd share my experience with setting up my email server. It's up and running finally - with SMTP and POP3 access to it.
My experience shows that Suse 8.1 is very capable of becoming an email server, but requires a deep understanding of the server configuration files. The default installation will handle SMTP traffic fine, but getting POP3/IMAP running on it was something I hadn't been able to get running properly using the gui interfaces. Even after making the appropriate changes in the config files I was still having problems (I'm sure I missed a step, but can't identify what it was....) So, I decided to try Red Hat 8 (seeing as I had the ISO's sitting here). Red Hat's default installation is similar to Suse - it installs Sendmail, but you can also have Postfix installed as well (Postfix being a little more secure). Setting up POP3/IMAP can be done via the gui interfaces. However, trying to receive POP3 mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] in KMail, while you are logged into the server as root, seems to be troublesome. But, when I boot up my Windows PC, and connect Outlook to the server, it works as expected (after authentication - which is also configured for you). So at this point, if I were to recommend an email server to someone, I would suggest they run on Red Hat, unless they wanted to take the time to learn the in's and out's of the various config files (which I would recommend anyways - there's some cool tricks you can do with them). Just keep in mind that I'm a relative newbie to Linux as a server (as opposed to a workstation which seems to be what most installs are), and I've only examined two distros with two MTA's - there more combinations out there, and packages like QMail, and E-Smith that might be more suitable for some. HTH someone out there. Shawn
