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I use Debian's Exim package. It's not too much hassle, although I'd advise avoiding Debian's magic configuration stuff unless you're sure it suits your needs.

by Joeboy 13y ago

I use Debian's Exim package. It's not too much hassle, although I'd advise avoiding Debian's magic configuration stuff unless you're sure it suits your needs. Edit: Oh, and courier-imap. It's so little hassle I haven't touched it in years and forgot how it's set up.

e12e 13y ago
I'm running Debian (old[1]) stable with Exim for incoming and outgoing smtp with greylistd for limiting spam, and dovecot for imap4 access -- all with my own SSL certs from cacert.org. At some point I'll probably have to set up more spam filtering - but for now it works surprisingly well. Unless you really know Exim well I would recommend to keep "Debian's magic configuration stuff". It makes it easy to set up SSL/TLS: http://wiki.debian.org/Exim#TLS_and_Authentication http://wiki.debian.org/Exim#TLS_and_Authentication Setting up dovecot is pretty straight forward, too: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/275/ https://www.debian-administration.org/article/275/ Note: I see no reason to enable imap -- just go with imaps. Greylisting for exim: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/167 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/167 Both Exim and dovecot can use a separate password file (among other options) for "virtual" users. I just use pam-auth for imap, and separate auth for smtp -- imap does give access to user files anyway (at least in principle, it could probably be locked more down). If you're new to Exim, there's no big reason not to use postfix -- other than it's the default for Debian (Postfix being default on Ubuntu). If you're going to host a lot of virtual users -- you might benefit from dbmail -- I haven't tried it myself, but been following the project from the sidelines for a few years -- it appears to be a good solution for virtual-user email (email users that are not also system users): http://www.dbmail.org/ http://www.dbmail.org/ [1] I'll be dist-upgrading "soon" -- hopefully nothing will break ;-) edit: formatting

by Joeboy 13y ago

e12e 13y ago

I'm running Debian (old[1]) stable with Exim for incoming and outgoing smtp with greylistd for limiting spam, and dovecot for imap4 access -- all with my own SSL certs from cacert.org. At some point I'll probably have to set up more spam filtering - but for now it works surprisingly well. Unless you really know Exim well I would recommend to keep "Debian's magic configuration stuff". It makes it easy to set up SSL/TLS: http://wiki.debian.org/Exim#TLS_and_Authentication http://wiki.debian.org/Exim#TLS_and_Authentication Setting up dovecot is pretty straight forward, too: https://www.debian-administration.org/article/275/ https://www.debian-administration.org/article/275/ Note: I see no reason to enable imap -- just go with imaps. Greylisting for exim: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/167 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/167 Both Exim and dovecot can use a separate password file (among other options) for "virtual" users. I just use pam-auth for imap, and separate auth for smtp -- imap does give access to user files anyway (at least in principle, it could probably be locked more down). If you're new to Exim, there's no big reason not to use postfix -- other than it's the default for Debian (Postfix being default on Ubuntu). If you're going to host a lot of virtual users -- you might benefit from dbmail -- I haven't tried it myself, but been following the project from the sidelines for a few years -- it appears to be a good solution for virtual-user email (email users that are not also system users): http://www.dbmail.org/ http://www.dbmail.org/ [1] I'll be dist-upgrading "soon" -- hopefully nothing will break ;-) edit: formatting