proskater123 Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I was wondering about what to use for an email server. Im very lazy and need a very easy way to send and recieve email when i run the server on my pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 squirrelmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 Use whatever your ISP provides. Let them carry the burden of running a mailserver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 If your lazy then you shouldn't run an e-mail server. You'll probably end up contributing to the billions of bits of spam out there and get your domain/IP blackholed (hopefully not intentionally). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macker Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 If you’re lazy don’t bother, but if you want one anyway go with sendmail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 If you’re lazy don’t bother, but if you want one anyway go with sendmail. :shock: You do realise he said "very easy way to send and recieve email". Sendmail is a lot of things except easy. The easiest is probably Exim. After that I'd have to say Postfix followed closely by QMail. I personally prefer Postfix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macker Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 If you’re lazy don’t bother, but if you want one anyway go with sendmail. :shock: You do realise he said "very easy way to send and recieve email". Sendmail is a lot of things except easy. The easiest is probably Exim. After that I'd have to say Postfix followed closely by QMail. I personally prefer Postfix. It’s not easy that’s why I said don’t bother, but in my opinion if your going to run your own email server then sendmail is the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitch Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Setting up an email server is NOT that hard, you just edit a few files with a text editor. Here is a good guide: http://shilo.is-a-geek.com/sendmail18.html As far as an easy way to use the server after it is running, a previous poster suggested squirrelmail which is really good, i use it too. the only thing is that you have to have a webserver running also since squirrelmail is just a web based front end to the email daemon. Otherwise you could just use Thunderbird to connect the pop3 port on the server...all of this is fairly simple to do, unless you are lazy and do not like *reading* and *learning*, and if that is the case, what are you doing here in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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