[CentOS] OT: question on setting up an email server

[Steve Huff]

On Jun 19, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Chris Mauritz wrote:

> Oy.  You're directing someone who obviously knows little about  
> setting up and administering a server to Dan Bernstein land?  You  
> might also want to let him know that he'll have to install all of  
> Dan's other support programs first and that Dan is a flaming *** to  
> deal with if you're one of the unwashed masses.  8-)
>
> Postfix takes only a few minutes to setup on a virgin CentOS box  
> and you won't have to download any 3rd party extras to make it work.

oh, whatever - there's *extensive* documentation, which largely  
insulates users from having to actually deal with djb at all.

for a turnkey mail server solution i would recommend the Qmail Toaster:

http://www.qmailtoaster.com/

it's a RPM-based solution that provides not only SMTP service but  
also IMAP, POP, webmail, virtual domains, web-based configuration,  
autoresponders, spam and virus filtering... and it's designed to be  
compatible with CentOS 3 and 4 (among other distros).  good stuff.

-steve

p.s. but again, this sounds like overkill for what the OP apparently  
wants to do.

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