On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 21:20, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 27.08.2005 schrieb David L um 1:44: > > Please do not post HTML formatted list mails. Thanks. > > > I am setting up a web/ftp/email server with fc4, and on this server > > there will be many web sites. All is good except for the choice of > > email server software. I will need to receive and transport mail for > > usere in each domain. Can anyone help me with this. Tanks Dave > > That is a wide field and you certainly will have to study some > documentation first. Fedora ships Sendmail and Postfix (Core) and Exim > (Extras) as MTAs. All 3 have of course the ability to be set up for > virtual hosting (multiple domain handling). The question which of those > 3 to use (or even another different one) may quickly lead to some kind > of religious, flamed discussion. So you better get an impression > yourself by reading on the MTAs homepages or simply choosing the one you > are familiar with. As POP3/IMAP servers Fedora comes with dovecot (Core) > and Cyrus-IMAPd (Extras). Those 2 can be used with multiple domains too. > dovecot is less complex than Cyrus-IMAPd, last one is most powerful. > Further software to be used with mail hosting is an anti-virus tool like > ClamAV (Extras) and a spam classification tool like SpamAssassin (Core). > > Do yourself, your customers and other mail users a favour and only start > running a virtual hosting mail server if you have profound knowledge, in > general and about the different mail applications aspects in specific. > > Alexander > And read up on greylisting in addition to spamassassin. It will block better than 98% of the spam out there with little consumption of system resources.
