Re: [Discuss] email server in Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Kent Borg
On 6/13/20 2:07 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: Amen.  The other fun thing you can do is create unique email addresses for every website that wants you to make a login.  I just add a new line to /etc/aliases, run 'newaliases' (I do sendmail), and then I've got a site-specific email address that will g

Re: [Discuss] email server in Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 6/13/2020 12:26 PM, Kent Borg wrote: > On 6/12/20 10:29 PM, Tom Luo wrote: >> Does anyone have experience setting a private email server in Ubuntu? > > If you like Ubuntu I would recommend Debian instead. It is what Ubuntu > was based on and they haven't ruined it as badly as they have Ubuntu.

Re: [Discuss] email server in Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Jerry Feldman
I would agree with Rich. We've been running postfix on BLU for a long time. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6 B B6E7 On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 10:32 PM Tom Luo wrote: > Hi, all, > > Does

Re: [Discuss] email server in Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Kent Borg wrote: > On 6/12/20 10:29 PM, Tom Luo wrote: > > Does anyone have experience setting a private email server in Ubuntu? > > I run postfix and dovecot on Debian. > > But a warning: You are heading into very rarefied territory here. I like > think it gives me some sort of elite bragging r

Re: [Discuss] email server in Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Kent Borg
On 6/12/20 10:29 PM, Tom Luo wrote: Does anyone have experience setting a private email server in Ubuntu? If you like Ubuntu I would recommend Debian instead. It is what Ubuntu was based on and they haven't ruined it as badly as they have Ubuntu. I run postfix and dovecot on Debian. But a w

Re: [Discuss] email server in Linux

2020-06-13 Thread Rich Pieri
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 23:03:35 -0400 Tom Luo wrote: > Hi, Rich, > > Do you recommend CentOS instead of Ubuntu? I don't advocate any particular distribution for any particular purpose. I only point out that I consider some distributions, such as Ubuntu, to be fatally flawed for some purposes, such