Mail Servers

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:40:54PM -0400, Tom Lopolito wrote:
> I've been asked to help pick a mail server for a small company with
> 15-25 users. They want to bring control in-house. I have about 3 months
> to get up to speed on whichever is chosen but I'm having difficulty
> deciding which one to suggest. I've looked at Courier and Postfix so
> far. I've heard that Sendmail and Cyrus are great but probably way more
> than I need and more difficult to setup. Can I get some suggestions from
> those out there that have setup a mail server and their experiences?

The realistic, well-supported choices other than sendmail are:

qmail (www.qmail.org, cr.yp.to, www.lifewithqmail.org)
Pros: easy to configure, very secure, fairly powerful
Cons: the author is highly opinionated

postfix (www.postfix.org
Pros: easy to configure, reasonably secure, extensible, widely used
Cons: more likely than qmail to have a security problem (but quickly
patched)

exim (www.exim.org)
Pros: reasonably secure, many many options
Cons: creeping featurism

Courier's IMAP is a good choice to use with qmail. I've never seen 
anyone use the full Courier mailserver.

-dsr-

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