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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : <mwestern@affairs.net.au>
  Date: 08 Nov 2001 17:44:41 -0930

Re: Best Mail Server

On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 14:12, Matthew Western wrote:

> We're running Exchange server in a single site.  We want to put in Linux
> box.  What's the best mail server to use that does POP3/SMTP?  doesn't need
> any Address List or Groups but from an administration point of view it would
> be easier to have this so can send mail to everyone@blah.com.  Basically for
> a small ISP.

Install Postfix (http://www.postfix.org/). It's fast, easy to configure
and secure. Worship it.

Next, install a POP-3 daemon. I generally use University of Washington,
but keep in mind the fact that it's had some security problems. Are you
only going to be serving POP to your LAN, or should it extend to the
rest of the world?

Finally, assuming you want to be able to have all staff instantly
contactable through one address, you have two options available.

Firstly, there's the incredibly simple method of adding an entry to your
mail aliases table that sends to multiple people listed in a text file.
Something like:

	everyone:	:include:/etc/mail/list.everyone

That means that anyone in the world can send e-mail to everyone@blah.com
and have every person listed in '/etc/mail/list.everyone' receive a
copy. This might be fine, but you may want to place some restrictions on
who can send to that address, message size and other such things.

Which brings you to the second option, install a mailing list manager. I
use Majordomo, "'Cause it doesn't suck", but you might prefer GNU
Mailman. Their websites are http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/ and
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ respectively.

There is much documentation available, as well as a plethora of
tutorials and articles on the subject. See http://www.postfix.org,
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ISP-Setup-RedHat-HOWTO.html,
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/book1.html,
as well as the usual Google search.

   - andrew

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