qmail or other server...
Hello all! I want to set up my own mailsystem at home. I use a ADSL connection, and i have my own domain regged. The question is what mailserver i should use. At the moment i only use Postfix to send my mail. I have a ISP mailbox for my incoming mail. I want to get that "in house". What shall i use? Its only me on the system right now, but in the future there might be a few more. Not too much trafic (i think), no more then a few hundred mails/day. I was glancing at SuSE E-mail server 3. But it might be a bit too "big". (Not to mention expensive) I tried downloading qmail-1.03 (after a recomendation from a friend) but the archive seems corrupted from the site. -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rjhn@linux.nu mob : +46 70 464 99 39 --------------------------Public PGP fingerprint------------------------------ < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >
On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:55, Rikard "DustPuppy" Johnels wrote:
Hello all! I want to set up my own mailsystem at home. I use a ADSL connection, and i have my own domain regged. The question is what mailserver i should use. At the moment i only use Postfix to send my mail. I have a ISP mailbox for my incoming mail. I want to get that "in house". What shall i use?
Its only me on the system right now, but in the future there might be a few more. Not too much trafic (i think), no more then a few hundred mails/day.
I was glancing at SuSE E-mail server 3. But it might be a bit too "big". (Not to mention expensive) I tried downloading qmail-1.03 (after a recomendation from a friend) but the archive seems corrupted from the site.
Rikard, I think that you should just keep using postfix. The e-mail server that I run uses Postfix, and although it is admittedly quite small, with just 6 users and only about a thousand messages a day, there has never been any trouble. Postfix is easy to configure, relatively secure, and pretty quick when you don't have a huge number of simultaneous messages to deal with. Hope this helps, Kevin
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 09:05:40AM -0700, kevin@mail.worshipthebean.com wrote:
On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:55, Rikard "DustPuppy" Johnels wrote:
I want to set up my own mailsystem at home. I use a ADSL connection, and i have my own domain regged. The question is what mailserver i should use. At the moment i only use Postfix to send my mail. I have a ISP mailbox for my incoming mail. I want to get that "in house". What shall i use? [snip] Rikard, I think that you should just keep using postfix. The e-mail server that I run uses Postfix, and although it is admittedly quite small, with just 6 users and only about a thousand messages a day, there has never been any trouble. Postfix is easy to configure, relatively secure, and pretty quick when you don't have a huge number of simultaneous messages to deal with.
I'll second that. IMHO, Unless you're talking about a *serious* message throughput (tens to hundreds of thousands of messages/day), or you're running on a really underpowered machine, then there's little to choose between sendmail/postfix/qmail on performance grounds. My mail is delivered via SMTP to my postfix mailserver which is a 32 MB DX2/66, and I get a few hundred messages/day without any significant performance loading from postfix - in fact, the greatest load comes from mailman's queue processing every minute. For high-throughput machines, I have a suspicion that qmail might offer superior performance (although I won't claim it, since I'll be at risk of starting a holy war), but on the throughput you're after, there's little to choose in terms of performance. Go for the one which is easiest to set up, has all the right features, and is most secure. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England
On Sat, 08 Jun 2002, Rikard DustPuppy Johnels wrote:
Hello all! I want to set up my own mailsystem at home. I use a ADSL connection, and i have my own domain regged. The question is what mailserver i should use. At the moment i only use Postfix to send my mail. I have a ISP mailbox for my incoming mail. I want to get that "in house". What shall i use?
What's wrong with Postfix for both ways? It's superb in bouncing spam and other crap with body- and header checks and it can work really well with e.g. amavis.
Its only me on the system right now, but in the future there might be a few more. Not too much trafic (i think), no more then a few hundred mails/day.
I was glancing at SuSE E-mail server 3. But it might be a bit too "big". (Not to mention expensive) I tried downloading qmail-1.03 (after a recomendation from a friend) but the archive seems corrupted from the site.
Qmail works ok, but it's not as nearly as configurable and consistent as Postfix. The new version now even has checks to see if mime attachments are valid and other cool features. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven ICBM 52 8 24N , 4 32 40E. S.u.S.E 7.3 x86 Kernel 2.4.16-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.
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Dave Smith -
Kevin L Hochhalter -
Rikard DustPuppy Johnels -
Theo v. Werkhoven