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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mail system recommendations
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On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:06:12 -0500
Michael Crute wrote:

> On 11/8/06, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > I have a small network, consisting of three PCs.  Each of these PCs
> > has a public WAN address, and each runs Apache, vsftpd and sendmail
> > (as well as ipkungfu for firewall protection).  One of them runs
> > mailman.  I would like to replace sendmail with something not
> > so...shall we say prehistoric?  I've been advised many times to do
> > so on this list and others.  Would anyone please give me some
> > recommendations for a new choice of mail server?  I'd like one with
> > plenty if documentation.
> 
> For my money I would say run postfix.

Michael S:

I agree with Michael C.  I've been running postfix for several years.
It's easy to use and it works!  More than that I don't want/need
(though I do use mailman with it to handle the bogofilter mailing
lists).

Regards,

David
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