[X-Unix] E-mail server

[Brent Baisley]

OS X ships with sendmail, no need for server version. You could also 
install Postfix, which is what OS X Server uses. There's also qmail and 
exim. Those are the most popular free ones. There are a bunch of 
commercial ones of course, one by Tenon comes to mind.
The problem with implementing one of the open source ones is setting it 
up for IMAP. POP access is fairly easy if you want to use qpopper from 
Eudora. UW-IMAP has a bad reputation and Cyrus-IMAP, which Apple uses 
on OS X Server, has problems compiling under OS X.

afp548.com has some good articles on setting up open source mail 
servers on OS X. You could also search the O'Reilly web site articles. 
Bottom line, using free open source software can be difficult 
implement, but you'll get a robust, powerful mail server out of it. 
Look to SquirrelMail for implementing a web interface to your mail 
server.


On Apr 21, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:

> I've been charged with setting up a small [10-15 user] e-mail server 
> at work; could anyone make any suggestions, or provide any links they 
> think would be good reading, for such an undertaking?
>
> TIA
> Russell
>
>
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