Want to be sure this program is what I need

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Aaron Bridge
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 3:16 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Want to be sure this program is what I need
> 
> What would you suggest for the MTA and POP/IMAP Server?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf
> Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 4:12 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Want to be sure this program is what I need
> 
> 
> On 02/08/05, Aaron Bridge <abridge at hqtrs.com> wrote:
> > We have 55 users.  Email is extremely important. Four hour downtime
> > would be extremely bad for me.  I don't even want to think about a
> > full day of no email.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> Sounds to me as if you should explore setting up your own MTA and POP/IMAP
> server then (bringing the email home, so to speak:-). This might sound as
> a
> lot of wourk, and it actually might be that initially (reading up on
> things,
> configuring&testing&....), but in the long run you'll be gratified by
> having
> more control over the whole email process.  If you decide to do that, then
> MailScanner is definitely for you.
> 
> --
> -- Glenn

Everybody has their favorites so let's no start a war but my preferences
would be:

MTA: sendmail or exim
IMAP / POP: dovecot http://www.dovecot.org/ 

Note that Dovecot ships with CentOS 4.x and I believe it's also part of Red
Hat 4.x.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

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