Qmail and Postfix are both good servers. However when you move beyond a basic setup with either, (i.e. virtual hosting), the complexity increases and you really need a good guide or lots of research to make it happen. I especially find authentication with in a virtual host environment to be problematic. But that likely has more to do with my current knowledge level. To me, qmail is easier to configure, whereas Postfix is more robust and GPL'd
I found that Kolab offered a very very easy alternative. It's a very simple install - download some files, run two scripts and you're operational. The scripts setup Postfix, Open LDAP, Apache, IMAP and a few other things for you. But it does have some limits. First, Kolab as it stands right now does not support virtual domains. Second, it installs into a chrooted environment (good for security), and this environment captures port 80, as well as the various email/pop3/imap ports. This means that you cannot easily install Kolab onto a box with an existing web server. Ideally though, email should be on a separate server anyways, so this may not be much of a problem for some. I have switched to a Kolab server over the holidays, and have no complaints yet. I even messed up my configs a little last night and was able to recover in just a few minutes (basically reinstalled). I'm just working through the process of getting Horde running with Kolab now... :) Hope this helps. Shawn On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:51, Jarrod Major wrote: > Hey All, > > I find myself mulling over the creation of a mail server yet again. Having > participated in the qmail workshop I feel I could pull off a qmail mail > server without too much trouble. > > What are the merits and demerits of the various MTA's out there? I have > read that sendmail has security flaws and to steer clear of this. Aaron > recommended Postfix and one of his biggest reasons appeared to be because > it is GPL'd where qmail is not. qmail appears to be highly configurable for > things like spam/virus filtering, mailing lists and such. I would be > surprised if Postfix is not just as configurable. > > I have also had Kolab server recommended to me but I don't know, this seems > to be over-the-top as far as what my needs are. I suppose I should define > them here as this will most likely influence people's recommendations. I am > talking about setting up a mail server to handle my own domain's mail. Less > than 10 users, not a lot of traffic. > > TIA.
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