Suggestions needed; mail server suggestions

[Jamon Camisso]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I've been using Sendmail for many years now, despite a few (aborted) 
> attempts to move to other systems. Until now it has served me well.
> 
>   Thing is though, the number of email addresses and domains I host has 
> been growing (and with luck, will continue to grow). My issue is that I 
> don't like needing to have a shell account for each email address. This 
> is insecure to a degree and makes backup and recovery more difficult.
> 
>   So I want to move to a SQL-based mail server. I want to let users use 
> their email address as their POP3 username, for simplicity.
> 
>   So what then, good TLUG'ers, would you suggest I look at? All I am 
> asking for is pointers, but recipes would be appreciated!
> 
>   Thanks all!

Try Postfix and Dovecot with your choice of PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite. 
Lots of documentation out there for a setup like that (read such a setup 
is common and well supported), and it scales well too.

Jamon
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