Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jeffrey Hartmann wrote: > I run a small server that is used for myself and some friends and family to > host email, webpages, etc. > > So can anyone give me some idea of what they run, or suggestions of what to > use that could be configured to do a lot of this stuff? Ease o

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:37:52PM -0700, Jeffrey Hartmann wrote: > I'm currently using sendmail, qpopper, and openwebmail. Although this setup > works, it's lacking in some features I would like. > > Requirements (mostly standard stuff): > > 1) maildirs - I've been told that maildirs is less C

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jeffrey Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be nice to be able to setup the filters from the MUA, but I'm > guessing thats going to be pretty rare or impossible to find. I believe sieve (with Cyrus imap) can do this. At least, Gnus claims support for it. I don't know if any other

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
My highly biased opinion in favor of qmail and friends. Comments inline: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:37, Jeffrey Hartmann wrote: > Requirements (mostly standard stuff): > > 1) maildirs - I've been told that maildirs is less CPU intensive since the MUA > doesn't have to scan through huge mailbox fi

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Jeffrey Hartmann said on Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:37:52PM -0700: > Requirements (mostly standard stuff): > > 1) maildirs - I've been told that maildirs is less CPU intensive since the MUA > doesn't have to scan through huge mailbox files. I also like that one mangled > message isn't going to corru

Re: Building a mail server

2003-07-30 Thread Yves Goergen
i'm learning exim right now. i'm going to use this as MTA along with courier-imap for POP3. from what i know, exim should be able to handle all the things you mentioned (except that filter setup from within a MUA). but you wouldn't have to mess around with a shell account. i've heard of sieve as