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.
-Jason
On 27-Apr-09, at 8:41 AM, 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.
-Jason
postfix is out of the box on centos. As is sendmail. But postfix is the easier of the two to grasp IMHO.
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dnk wrote:
On 27-Apr-09, at 8:41 AM, 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.
-Jason
postfix is out of the box on centos. As is sendmail. But postfix is the easier of the two to grasp IMHO.
And there's documentation aimed at beginners here on the Wiki for Postfix/dovecot:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-0facb50d5796bee0bd394636c32ffa9a997a6ab5
Not your only choice by any means.
Hope that helps.
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.
The wiki has a nice setup:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos#head-0facb50d5796bee0bd394636c32ffa9a997a6ab5
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.
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.
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
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.
Les Mikesell wrote:
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.
Sorry, I was just referring to setting up mail under standard CentOS :)
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.
'nix systems seperate email into two seperate functions, A) the message transfer agent or MTA, of which sendmail and postfix are the two main solutions, qmail is deprecated in most circles. exim is yet another option, and B) the IMAP/POP services for clients to read mail, of which dovecot and cyrus are the two main choices nowdays, qpopper is quite hoary and old and deprecated.
of the two main MTAs, sendmail is considered something of a legacy, and if you're not already intimately familiar with it, I'd skip it entirely. postfix is preferred by most everyone who's switched to it, and for new installs.
dovecot is probably simpler to setup and use as an imap/pop system, while cyrus is more flexible and complex (for instance, cyrus can use a SQL database for its backing store and for virtual mail users, rather than requiring unix accounts and flat files).
of course, as soon as you open a mail server up to incoming internet mail, you need to configure spam filtering or you'll be swamped. there's many different approaches to this, and most people end up using a combination of several. razor, spamassassin, mailscanner, an antivirus scan if you have windows users, an RBL like zen.spamhaus.net to block well known spam sources, etc etc etc.
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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.
-Jason _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Dovecot and Postfix are my favorite. If you want webmail, I would use RoundCube Webmail. All combined make a pretty nice and simple mail solution.
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