[Sussex] Email server suggestions

Jamie L. Penman-Smithson lists at silverdream.org
Sat Jun 4 19:06:28 UTC 2005


Hey Paul,

On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 12:43 +0100, Paul Howard wrote: 
> I am getting ready to replace an ageing MS Exchange 5.5 server at work 
> and the licensing costs for Exchange 2003 are giving me a good reason to 
> ditch MS and use a Linux Mail server.
> 
> We don't use most of the advanced features of the Exchange server anyway 
>   so it seems like a good deal.
> 
> I already run a few small mail servers using the SME server [1] but 
> although this is a great solution with pop3/imap/webmail etc etc built 
> in - it doesn't do very well with handling global address lists, 
> especiialy for contacts outside of the organisation.
> 
> Anyone got any suggestions of Linux mail servers I should be looking at?

I'd suggest using Postfix, it's easy to configure initially and if you
want to make use of the advanced features you can "learn-as-you-go".

More info is available at www.postfix.org

-j
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