On Wednesday 09 January 2002 05:39 pm, Paul A. Thomas wrote: > I would like to put a REALLY small email server up at work using Debian > ( I have a RH box I've put together but I like ... the feel of this list > / what it says about Debian vs what I've encountered with RH ). > I had heard about Sendmail and have visited their web site, however did > not see anything approaching a quick and dirty method to get up and > running. Actually didn't see a manual at all. I presume the man page > within the application itself would be what I'm after. > The more I look the more it looks like Sendmail is a project. > Which, if any, Linux based Email server applications require the least > tuning to get operational? Or are they all fairly 'configurable' and > thus time consuming? And of those recommended should we avoid any due > to illogical security defaults as with anything Microsoft puts out for > Email? > > Thanks > > Paul
first off, have you ever heard of a linux email-virus? do a google search and if you find one, let me know. there are a few different mail server apps available in linux. personally, i use exim, and i also used it a few years back for a mail server that was used by a law firm; and i've never had any complaints from them. while exim may appear a tad complicated, at first, it is nowhere near the complexity of sendmail, and, once you develop some familiarity with it, you won't want anything else. the lawyers i mentioned were all using widows machines to access mail on a linux server, in case that's an issue. check out the web page at www.exim.org. as for security flaws, ask yourself why microsoft mail apps are the favorite target, and there's your answer.
