Hi, > > Ultimately, your requirements should drive your decision > > Let me qualify this opinion by disclosing that I am by no means a guru. > However, when I wanted to set up a mail server for my home domain, the > installation, documentation and support had to be easy. > > Although there may be technically superior solutions out there, I am > kind of partial to Qmail in either of two flavors (in truth, it's not > necessarily Qmail itself that sold me, but the individual implementations): > > www.qmailrocks.org - this site gives you a step-by-step walk through for > configuring a Qmail server with anti-virus, anti-spam, web > administration, smtp/pop/imap; it also provides a squirrelmail interface > for checking email via the web. > > The documentation is very helpful and you learn a lot during the > install. Given an existing install of CentOS, I would plan for about 8 > hours for a first-time install. > > www.qmailtoaster.com - when my first mail server died (due to > catastrophic hardware failure), I took the opportunity to switch to > qmailtoaster. I'm a bit busy with life away from a keyboard, and the > qmail-toaster setup had a couple of very strong benefits for me: > > First, it is incredibly simple. Given an existing CentOS installation, > you can have a Qmail-toaster up and running in less than two hours (most > of which is download/compile time). Second, there is a great web-admin > interface for handling users, domains, and the MRTG add-on (speaking of > domains, it supports multiple virtual domains). > > Features include spamassassin, clamav (antivirus), ezmlm, squirrelmail, > smtp/pop/imap and etc. > > Finally, for me... the best part of the qmail-toaster installation is > the mailing list, very friendly and helpful, with no haughty "RTFM" > edicts from the self-appointed, unconfirmed bench. Consequently, there > are very few in the way of stupid questions (perhaps when people give so > willingly of their time and knowledge, there is the subconscious desire > to search the archives rather than waste their time). > > just my $0.02 > > Another alternative is the recently released Scalix mail server > www.scalix.com. I have not tested it, but there is a free 'community > version' which is a full-featured version of the enterprise install > (though limited to 5-users). > > hth, > > Ron Jones > Alpharetta, GA After checking the link, I found that I need to compile most of the software that was use.. all I search for was something that was provided by CentOS `out-of-box` which will simplified the upgrade process by adding some repo and run `yum upgrade` without worrying that I could lost some step while compiling the source ( especially when there was a security fix and need to update urgently ). Anyway, thanks for the links.. if what I was asking for is not provided by the CentOS 4.x by default then, I will brave myself to follow all those step. ( Anyway, CentOS was a server base distributions and I really wonder why it was not include all those setup which is common for someone who want to setup the email server these days ) Thanks In Advances, regards, ijez