On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
> To be honest Ted I'm not comfortable with Linux full stop. I don't get the > time to learn basically, so what would be best is the simplest version to > get to work. Ubuntu. > What I'm after is setting up a mail server to get rid of MS exchange. This is an FAQ, and it is not a simple answer. Exchange does a bunch of things that no other mail server does, and it does a lot of things differently than any other (Perhaps you've heard "MAPI Bad, SMTP Good?" That's not just snarky, it's years of painful experience.) I can't advise you on mail servers, other than to say I strongly discourage people from running their own mail servers for the same reasons I advise them not to generate their own electricity: it's not their job, they don't have the skills, they don't want to be on-call 24/7, and it takes their focus away from their real jobs. I help my clients set up their email with someone who does this for a living. After griping and moaning, most clients have found Google Apps for Business to be an acceptable substitute. The free version is sufficient for small organizations, while the paid version is cheaper than maintaining Exchange. (I think Malcolm may have a suggestion, too :) > I want > to be able to use multiple domains much as I can with IIS for web sites. It's easy enough to do this with Apache or one of the other web servers, but again, I host my dozen or so domains on a hosted provider who rents me a VM cheaply and is a lot better at keeping it on the Internet than I can be out here at the edge of civilization: we've lost power many times in the past weeks, due to storms, filled the basement (formerly, "the only water-cooled data center in Contoocook!") with water, and lost the telephone poles on the street, dropping DSL and dialtone. My domains have been up 24/7, snuggled securely in a data center in an undisclosed location, with redundant power and redundant internet connectivity. Why would I try to duplicate that? (I do admin the box -- it's running CentOS -- but I've had about 10 years practice at this point.) > Also a mailing list server like mailman. I did have the latter set up before > but that was a while ago. And also maybe for mono for cross-platform stuff. So, is this a production mail server, a development box, or a beta test platform? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4sxhL=10tsnysdigfcthmgvh6aiwy9zfs6zh6rx8tw...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
