I am currently running a combination of

• Postfix

• Dovecot

• SquirrelMail webmail

There was a thread about mail servers on NZLUG--- some of the comments...

Jonathon Sim....
Sendmail : ships with RedHat, comes with a zillion bells and whistles, and lots of people use it, but has a bad reputation for security (sendmail is probably second only to MS products in its reputation for insecurity : it's the Windows of mail servers)

Postfix : tries to work exactly like sendmail, but be more secure and "better" (the Linux of mail servers?)

Qmail : Aims for security as its one (and only?) feature. Most functionality is implemented as patches : the idea being you dont install functionality you dont want. Only ships as source code (the openBSD of mail servers?)

Exim : what comes with Debian.

For what you want I would recommend Postfix or Exim (or whatever comes with your Linux distribution really). There are a bunch of howtos on the net for each mail server that should get you started with minimal pain.

NB forgot to mention: you might want to look at Kolab server:
http://kolab.kde.org

It consists of postfix, cyrus-imap, openldap, apache and a nice web interface that tries to create an "out of the box" preconfigured mail server. Might be a good choice if you don't want to get your hands dirty with too many config files : and it helps avoid common security mistakes (like setting up an open relay!)

Martin Wehipeihana ....
I use Qmail, I found the documentation pretty straight forward. You will have to compile from source .... but thats no big deal. My best tip would be to read the documentation and then read it again at least 5 more times.
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html

Phillip Hutchings....
Personally, I would recommend Courier MTA for all the whole mail system, though don't use the webmail package they include. http://www.courier-mta.org/ - It's not the easiest for certain tasks, but it sure beats combinations in my experience.

Badli Al Rashid.....
You can take a look at Qmailrocks for a qmail tutorial and it also has an active mailing lists. http://www.qmailrocks.org

Simon Lamb.....
Could also try Qmail Toaster. Everything you want in one easy package. SMTP, POP3, IMAP, and Web (Well not one package but ya get the idea) http://www.qmailtoaster.com/

SEE ALSO....
http://au2.spamassassin.org/index.html

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