[brlug-general] Linux based mail server

[Edmund Cramp]

Giovanni Tairov wrote:

>Would anyone please suggest a decent and manageable Linux based mail
>server?  I would greatly appreciate your input or personal experience
>story.  Not to inflict a hell fire upon myself, but, the question is still
>valid: with Microsoft selling their standard version of Exchange 2003 for
>$297 plus 1.70 per client, why would I look somewhere else?
>
MDaemon's a good Windows based mail server (www.altn.com) - support for 
web mail, spamassasin, mail-lists, virus-scanning, RBLs, content 
filtering, etc is either built-in or can be added ($$).  It has an easy 
GUI to control the whole thing which is it's main selling point for me - 
I've used with for about 6-7 years with no significant problems and it 
has good support folks if you do have problems.  The MDaemon server also 
has an "exchange-like" groupware interface for Outlook support but I've 
not used it - the Kaspersky AV software and SpamAssasin support 
(Pro-version?) are excellent and easy to setup and admin.

Our current mail load is 20 users handling about 20,000 message per 
week, 88% of our incoming mail is spam, 4-5% is viruses - SpamAssassin 
and the Kaspersky AV software make life bearable by filtering everything 
at the mail server with one integrated application.

Otherwise I hear good things said about sendmail and qmail on all fronts 
except manageability - I looked at switching to qmail a couple of years 
ago but the lack of any integrated AV and Spam filtering put me off.

Edmund Cramp
Motion Lab Systems, Inc.