[CentOS] E-Mail Serving Options
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 17:32:48 UTC 2009
Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> What are my e-mail serving options? I need to host POP, IMAP and SMTP.
>>>> I must admit that non-windows e-mail hosting has always been a chore
>>>> for me. I remember QMail and QPopper IIRC.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> For some reasonably small number of users you might like the
>>> appliance-like SME server distribution from http://www.contribs.org. It
>>> is pretty much 'just-add-users' out of the box.
>> I second SME, with one caviat.
>>
>> You cant' have the same user name in two mail domains on one server. You
>> have to play games with aliases for this. This limitation is well
>> documented in the Wiki.
>>
>>
>
> Might be worth referring to:
> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-email.html
The picture is somewhat different under SME. While the bulk of the
system is Centos based, email is a custom mix of qmail and dovecot
configured to use maildir storage with some spam/virus checking and
hoard webmail thrown in.
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Les Mikesell
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