Giovanni Tairov wrote: >Would anyone please suggest a decent and manageable Linux based mail >server? I would greatly appreciate your input or personal experience >story. Not to inflict a hell fire upon myself, but, the question is still >valid: with Microsoft selling their standard version of Exchange 2003 for >$297 plus 1.70 per client, why would I look somewhere else? > MDaemon's a good Windows based mail server (www.altn.com) - support for web mail, spamassasin, mail-lists, virus-scanning, RBLs, content filtering, etc is either built-in or can be added ($$). It has an easy GUI to control the whole thing which is it's main selling point for me - I've used with for about 6-7 years with no significant problems and it has good support folks if you do have problems. The MDaemon server also has an "exchange-like" groupware interface for Outlook support but I've not used it - the Kaspersky AV software and SpamAssasin support (Pro-version?) are excellent and easy to setup and admin.
Our current mail load is 20 users handling about 20,000 message per week, 88% of our incoming mail is spam, 4-5% is viruses - SpamAssassin and the Kaspersky AV software make life bearable by filtering everything at the mail server with one integrated application. Otherwise I hear good things said about sendmail and qmail on all fronts except manageability - I looked at switching to qmail a couple of years ago but the lack of any integrated AV and Spam filtering put me off. Edmund Cramp Motion Lab Systems, Inc.
