Well, if the mail is going to come directly to your system, then you do not want Fetchmail. It is for fetching mail from another mail server, and delivering it to your local system. Great for dialup users.Hello folks,
I'm installing a web server, apache, and nowadays its running quite well. The next step is to provide full email service for those domains (nowaday we have two, zeti.net and kendersoftware.net). I've been googling for documentation about it, and i found some options like Postfix, Sendmail, Fetchmail and QMail (some of these are available through my Mandrake 10.1 PowerPack copy).
I'd like to hear some opinions about, maybe someone out there can help me choose a server. Furthermore, I'd thank a lot if someone can provide me a tutorial, docs, etc, on what I need for making this stuff work (I'm looking at postfix.org docs 'cause Postfix seems to be reliable, but the material there is rather confussing...).
Thanks for your time. Best wishes,
Fernando Gómez.
Sendmail is one of the oldest mail servers, and is probably the most configurable, but is also one of the most cryptic to set up. While it is a great learning experience setting to set up and troubleshoot, it is not exactly user friendly.
Now, when it comes to Postfix, and Qmail, they are both good packages for what you are doing. There have been long and heated discussions about the merits of each. I don't know witch is best.
I have configured both Sendmail and Postfix. If you find the Postfix docs "rather confussing", you don't want to try and understand the Sendmail ones!
As Anne has pointed you to a great source of more information, I will leave it at that...
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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