[Sussex] MTA/SMTP servers

[John Crowhurst]

>> I'm going to emerge an MTA/SMTP server tonight/tomorrow morning,
>> although I'm aware that sendmail is the most used, is there one
>> particular one you would recommend such as postfix or another option?

Sendmail is the most popular, the largest and most complex. (I'm
deliberately missing out MMDF - avoid that like the plague)

I've heard that Exim is quite nice once you've installed it properly.
Postfix seems to be the simplest to configure.

>> Also, while I'm talking about mail servers etc, can anyone recommend a
>> POP3 or IMAP server to emerge?  I'm turning my box into a complete
>> server so that I can test my websites before sending them live. Part
>> of the website will be sending out an automatic newsletter every week
>> and I want to check the email function works as well as the cron jobs.

> For IMAP/POP3, UW-IMAP works and is easy to set-up. It's not the worlds
> most secure software but for testing purposes it's fine. For a real-life
> server people would probably say use Cyrus or Courier, but they require
> a lot more configuration to get going.

UW-IMAP is probably the most common, and comes with POP3 as well.

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John