[Gllug] E-Mail

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 09 Jan, Peter Childs wrote:
> 
>       Why is EMail so difficult?
> 
>       I'm trying to set up a fully fedged multi-user E-Mail system.
> None of the answers are easy.
> 
>       I was think of using exim/cyrus as shared folders would be nice
> one day.

   Exim is much more than a simple basic system, it has many options
available that are normally unselected in the default configuration, but are
there for your use if you wish, together with the relevant documentation.

> 
>       There are no good howto documents.
> 
   Individual software packages have their own documentation which is not
usually in the form of a HOWTO. The main documentation for packages in
Debian is in

/usr/share/doc/

>       You would have thought somone would have written a nice simple
> E-Mail server by now but no.
> 
>       I want it fully fuctional within 10 minites. any ideas?

   You could spend much more than 10 minutes arguing about what a simple
E-Mail server should or should not do, and by the time you reach any sort of
conclusion you will have added a few requirements that would involve
changing to one which offers more.

> 
> Peter Childs
> 


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