[X4U] e-mail server question

[Doug McNutt]

At 18:11 -0400 4/11/08, lisa c wrote:
>  While I definitely recommend picking up books on how email works I think you also need to have an idea of what type of email package you plan/want to install.  That will also help you to narrow down what books to buy.  Ie.. there are many email server packages and thus many books on how to set one up.


Sendmail and qmail are the most common on UNIX based systems. Sendmail is the original and is hard to learn and use.

qmail is the choice of my web service provider and I have had to learn about it. It's not too bad but it's handling of distribution to the likes of POP3 servers is strange with everything being done with stdin and stdout. It makes for curious parameter and text passing between UNIX processes like SpamAssassin. It is also under a license that prohibits distributing changed versions. The result is that you have to compile it with patches to get functionality you might want.

The O'Reilly book by John R. Levine, ISBN 1-56592-628-5 is a good read. It helped me a lot even for working with Sendmail.


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