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Mailing in Linux

chennai — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:48:20 GMT

Could any one suggest me which MAILING software is best for Redhat linux and also please send me the installation/configuration procedure.

Re: Mailing in Linux

Mark Grant — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:55:53 GMT

Do you mean a mail client i.e. a progarmme you can write and send mails in or do you mean a mail transport agent. If the latetr then sendmail is the standar but there are others as well, such as procmail.

If you mean a client I think it would best depend on which desktop you are using. There are hundreds of them!

Re: Mailing in Linux

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:04:29 GMT

There are a bunch of clients on the install cd's. All have advantages and disadvantages.

On the server side, sendmail is an old workhorse, but is repleat with security flaws that must be dealt with. The advantage is everyone uses it and there are lots of ways to tweak the setup.

Just explore the install cd and look for sendmail. rpm -i sendmail_version....

SEP

Re: Mailing in Linux

chennai — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:08:44 GMT

Iam looking for Mailing server [ ex. sendmail, qmail etc.. ]

Re: Mailing in Linux

Mark Grant — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:30:01 GMT

well SEP points out the issues with sendmail but this is really a question that you need to look into. What exactly do you want to achieve. Different agents had different strengths and weaknesses. The main advantage of sendmail here i sthat you can probably click a button somewhere within your distributions installer and have everything set up for you. the disadvantage is that you need to have your brain soaked in anti-feeze for a month if you decide you need to re-configure

Have a look at this page.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:RATXNCGxbBgJ:www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html+linux+%2B+mail+%2B+transport&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Re: Mailing in Linux

Paulo A G Fessel — Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:40:01 GMT

I've dropped sendmail a long ago. It's full of security holes and a pain in the a** to maintain.

I'm using postfix nowadays with courier-imap with excellent results. If your distribution is a recent one, they will be available for installation.

More documentation about Postfix can be found on http://www.postfix.org. Info on Courier can be found at http://www.courier-mta.org.

HTH
Paulo Fessel

Re: Mailing in Linux

Dave Falloon — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:29:47 GMT

I am using qmail + spamassassin + courierimap + squirrelmail and it works beautifully. There was a lot of reading and playing before I could make qmail hum. The biggest hurdle with qmail is it uses Dan Bernstein's way of monitoring processes and moves away from the inetd superserver, and it can take a little getting used to. Courier was a pain to compile on solaris 8 but was a dream on a debian system. Squirrelmail is a great webmail tool if you need one, I have also had great success with imp both require a web server though ( it is webmail after all :). Mailman is a good mailing list manager with a web frontend if you need to manage lists.

If I had it all to do over I would probably go with Postfix though. It has a rich feature set and allows great control over mail delivery. Spam Assassin is great and Iw would say it is a necessity in todays email world.

I hope that helps,

Dave

Re: Mailing in Linux

I.Delic — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:45:59 GMT

Hi,

I sugest use sendmail programma. Of course on your server side www.sendmail.com,
or
you can use openexchange server from Suse
http://www.suse.de/us/business/products/openexchange/screenshots.html

On your client side you can use evry kind
of programma to conect your sendmail.
Voor example Mozilla

Re: Mailing in Linux

chennai — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:12:59 GMT

Dear Dave,

I came to know there is a SMTP configuration problems in qmail. is it like that??
Please send me the installation/configuration procedure for the qmail.

arun

Re: Mailing in Linux

I.Delic — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:54:59 GMT

hi,

here i have another good link for you

www.invantive.com

succes

Idriz

Re: Mailing in Linux

Dave Falloon — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:39:07 GMT

I haven't run into any troubles with smtp standards compliancy with qmail, but like I said if I was to do it again I would use postfix + courier-imap + spamassassin.

Heres a link to the postfix docs page with tons of good info on installation:

http://www.postfix.org/docs.html

Specifically I would read the postfix + LDAP + courier-imap howto. That should cover most peoples needs. Here is a another page off the postfix site, its the add-on software page, this should give you an idea of how many tools work with postfix:

http://www.postfix.org/addon.html

That should be a good start as far as bedtime reading :)

Dave