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Title: Any good open source mailservers?
Post by: rabbidrabbit on July 07, 2006, 09:12:52 AM

Title pretty much says it...  I could use a decent mail server for a small office.  Any pointers?

Title: Any good open source mailservers?
Post by: Skuzzy on July 07, 2006, 09:18:43 AM

Sendmail and Qmail are pretty much standard over the Internet.  There are others.

Sendmail is pretty complex to setup, but has enormous flexibility.  However, if it is not setup correctly, it can be a source of extreme headaches.

Qmail is simpler to setup and has a similar feature set to Sendmail but is probably more bulletproof to configure.

Both scale well (if you know what you are doing).  Both are native to UNIX.  If you are running a Windows server-wannabe thing, then either of the above is probably not suitable.

Title: Any good open source mailservers?
Post by: rabbidrabbit on July 07, 2006, 09:38:10 AM

the only box I can put it on is a win2k3 server...

I'm not sure if there are any ports of sendmail but I'll take a look.