[Sussex] Email server suggestions

[Steve Dobson]

Chris

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 06:44:52PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 1:06:31 pm 04/06/2005 Steve Dobson <steve at dobson.org> wrote:
> > I would suggest Exim4 as your MTA.  It was written to handle all
> 
> Exim is indeed a very nice MTA and v4 adds some excellent stuff (mmm,
> acls), I would also recommend it. Having said that, it is a bit of a beast
> to configure, especially the acls. Once it's set up right though, it takes
> some force of nature to mess it up ;)

I found exim4 very easy to configure.  But then I did buy the Exim4
book by Philip Hazel.  The examples in there are clear and well 
documented so that I could figure out the changes that I needed to 
make.  I do recommend the book.
 
> > own systems.  The thinking is that if exim4 can route mail there it
> > can route it anywhere.
> 
> Sadly exim performance craps out when the queue hits the mid-to-high tens
> of thousands; The guys at Demon/Thus had to switch to zMailer for their
> very high load machines.
> They do have Philip Hazel on the case though, afaik, so it should be
> sorted. Plus it's not the kind of figure that most people could ever
> possibly reach ;)

Not the volume of e-mail I'd expect most to handle.
 
> > successful got an Exim4/Courier system working with IMAP access to
> > Outlook, Evolution and SquirrelMail clients
> 
> I can report that they are also very happy talking to Dovecot (pop/imap
> server), which I like a lot. Also check out Hastymail, which is like
> SquirrelMail, but (imho) nicer (although not as fully featured yet). So
> much nicer that I've just switched to it from Squirrel :)

Haven't looked at Dovecot - maybe I should.
 
> > I gave a talk at the Moot on using exim last month - you should have
> > been there.  But you can see the presentation on the website.
> 
> Just had a quick look through the slides, looks like it was a good
> presentation :)

Ta.

Steve

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