Re: [K12OSN] Email server question
David Hopkins (dahopkins@comcast.net)
Fri, 09 May 2003 12:01:00 -0400
Richard,
I personally prefer qmail as an alternative to sendmail.
http://www.qmail.org/top.html
It is also the mail system being adopted where I work (and security is a
big, big, ... concern).
On the above site, in the user contrib section, there is a reasonable
guide on setting it all up, hardware guidelines, etc at.
http://www.dulug.duke.edu/~icon/qvcs-guide/
At least, it was very useful to me. Some of the other documents are
worth browsing as well.
I agree that the mail/web server should be a dedicated system.
Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins
Newark Charter School,
Newark, Delaware 19713
> > I'd like to setup a mail server for all the users. What would be the
> > best way to go about doing this? Should I make my webserver handle
> > this, What hardware is in your webserver and how much load is it taking now?
>
>
> > or let my Pentium4, 36Gb SCSI system handle it? Which email
> > server is the best for security? For handling SPAM?
>
> Which email server? There are a lot of choices. Sendmail is the
> most widely used. I use it in its standard config right out of the
> RedHat box. You have to edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and put your domain
> info etc.. into it. Then use the following command:
>
> m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
>
> followed by :
>
> service sendmail restart
>
>
> SPAM - there are many tools available for many mailers. I use bogofilter
> which uses bayesian filtering to identify spam. Its a new technology but
> it seems to run faster and work more accurately than many of the existing
> tools. YMMV
--
David Hopkins
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