>I know people are annoyed at the holy war over mail servers, but this is >useful to me, or would be if you would give some reasons why your favorite >is the best. I have been adding Linux machines to our small company for a >year or so now (file server, router, etc). It's approaching time to tackle >the Web and Mail servers, which are currently IIS and Exchange. I am most >intimidated by the mail server and would appreciate any suggestions on >reading material to get me started, and, yes, even suggestions on which >mail server to use. You've seen mention of the main MTAs. I've tried Postfix and Qmail. I was forced into supporting Sendmail at work for a while. Now, I only have to support my home mail server, so take this for what it's worth. I'm currently using Courier MTA (www.courier-mta.org). My selection criteria were: 1. Maildirs and not mbox 2. IMAP support 3. Web interface Courier IMAP is a very well regarded IMAP implementation for Maildir formats. Following down that lead, I stumbled onto the full Courier package, which did everything I wanted it to do in one fell swoop. This is not to say it's monolithic. Sam V. (the main developer)has done a good job of modularizing the system so you only install what you want. A lot of people replace the webmail interface with Squirrel or one of the other, prettier web interfaces. The one down point is, the documentation is convoluted. You have to read EVERYTHING and there are frequent RTFM references on the mailing lists (Sam can be moody). Hope that helps, Bruce Bruce Broecker Network Comm Supervisor The Toro Company _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list