On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net> wrote: > >> And yahoo works equally well as a free mail service. > > In parts of the world Yahoo mail is technically defective. Just does not > work. Can you elaborate on that? Is it blocked or badly translated or what? I use an account there (from the US) just to isolate a few things from the clutter of gmail (and historically because I once had an oddball phone where the notifications worked better from there). >> This is the realm for ClearOS, SME, or Nethserver which will have a >> reasonable mail system working out of the box instead of the months it >> will take someone to get the details right from scratch. But, no, it >> isn't likely to match Google in terms of either reliability or ease of >> use - and especially in searchability. > > With no previous experience of Linux and with no hand-holding from > anyone, I switched from Windoze to Centos 5, installed Exim and it > worked straight from 'the box'. No delays, no struggle, no bewilderment, > no problems; Exim just worked like a dream come true. I use Evolution as > the mail client. I'm confused as to why with no experience you would choose to use a non-default mail system. > No wonder I genuinely adore Centos. There is nothing as good as it. The base CentOS is like a toolbox that lets you assemble whatever you want. And it is very mature, well tested code. But, ClearOS/SME/Nethserver have that same code base plus lots of man-hours put into making all the standard services you are likely to need come up working out of the box with a simple web interface to add users and manage it. So, they are automatically 'as good' as Centos, and better if you happen to want what they do. If you have room to spin up a VM, have a look at ClearOS before judging it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com