Re: [Boston.pm] web hosting recommendations?

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Wood
Mitchell, I use Site5 for my web hosting needs: http://www.site5.com/ I've found them to be extremely competent and responsive. They are very Perl-friendly, and in fact, they've been willing to install new Perl modules for me into the systemwide Perl libraries. Their tech support typically

[Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread Ranga Nathan
I am strongly advocating someone to get off Microsoft Exchange and move to a Linux based mail server. I have used Sendmail but I find it a bit complex . I found this link: http://www.geocities.com/mailsoftware42/ Looking at this Qmail seems OK to me. But I believe there are some perl based

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread User Reichert
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:48:03PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote: I am strongly advocating someone to get off Microsoft Exchange and move to a Linux based mail server. I have used Sendmail but I find it a bit complex . I found this link: http://www.geocities.com/mailsoftware42/ Looking at

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread James Eshelman
I recently switched from a Windows mailserver (Argomail) to Surgemail one of my Linux servers. Does SMTP/ESMTP, POP3 and IMAP if you're looking for a fully integrated system. It's targeted at ISP's, has good spam filtering built-in as well as the ability to add external filters, has web mail,

[Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:48:03 -0800 I am strongly advocating someone to get off Microsoft Exchange and move to a Linux based mail server. I have used Sendmail but I find it a bit complex. I chose qmail for my home system because I refused to

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: RPMS (was: Recommendation for mail server)

2004-12-02 Thread Gyepi SAM
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:17:10PM -0500, Bob Rogers wrote: (Though I may do so eventually, if I ever finish building RPMs for the qmail suite.) All the djbware required to run qmail is now available as rpms. See: http://untroubled.org/rpms/ To keep this on topic, but only marginally: I have

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: RPMS (was: Recommendation for mail server)

2004-12-02 Thread Ranga Nathan
Thanks for all those responses. The research continues __ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 Gyepi SAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread Ian Langworth
On 02.Dec.2004 04:48PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote: I am strongly advocating someone to get off Microsoft Exchange and move to a Linux based mail server. I found the previous responses interesting. Nobody mentioned Postfix or Exim. Postfix is still my personal favorite. It's what I install

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread Tom Metro
Ranga Nathan wrote: I am strongly advocating someone to get off Microsoft Exchange and move to a Linux based mail server. I think the two easy answers are: 1. Use whatever is bundled with your Linux distribution. If it is for a small site, and they don't require anything beyond the basic

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

2004-12-02 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
I really like qmail... and combined with qpsmtpd I have stopped over 90 percent of my incoming crap at the smtpd level. On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:48:03PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote: I am strongly advocating someone to get off Microsoft Exchange and move to a Linux based mail server. I have