Mail Server Q&A's

[Rastar]

I am trying to figure out which is the prefered mail server to use with RH7.1. I have a dns2go account that changes my dynamic to static. I am trying to allow the mud admins to have a email account and would think the email address would be something like joe@bts.d2g.com. Now the hard part these mail servers are they pretty much plug and play or does it take a 10 year old computer genius to configure it. Thanks for your help and no I don't want to start a flame war.

Rastar
:D

[hambleto]

I myself am using sendmail to accept incoming mail for the users of my box. Sendmail is a very complicated program though. However if you are going to have them telnet (although ssh is the prefered and secure method) into your box and check their e-mail with Pine (or similar program) you can get up and running right now (RH7 should have installed sendmail right off the bat) you just need to change some settings in the /etc/mail/ dir. I myself like a program called webmin (http://webmin.com/webmin/) it gives a nice web based config method to alot of the features of sendmail. One thing to remeber is that people wil lnot be able to send email through your box from out side (unless you open it up to spamming) due to the configuration of sendmail. In my case I set up basilix (http://www.basilix.org/) to allow people to send and recieve e-mail through the web. With a little config of basilix you can even get it to use the same folders they would get in pine through the web. I hope that i was able to help some.
Ben
:)