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Question Want to know experiences/difficulty setting up a dedicated mail server...
Hi everybody,

We have a handful of servers running their own sendmail daemons on them, and we have an external provider handling our personal company email accounts.

It might be time for us to migrate all of this to a dedicated mail server, to handle all incoming and outgoing mail for our company applications, along with all our personal company mailboxes.

What kind of complexity does this involve? Is it rathar difficult to setup a dedicated mail server? Should I use Sendmail or QMail? What kind of hardware do we need? A mail server doesn't need a huge load of horsepower would it?


Does anyone use a primary and backup mail server? How do you handle redundancy?


Any good third party config tools recommended?
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I'm definitely not an expert when it comes to mail servers, but I set up a Redhat 7.2 box with sendmail as a mailman server about 6 months ago and it's been working perfectly.

Just make sure to figure how to deny relaying, tighten down the firewall, and check the logs.
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I set my company's mail server with the following packages:

Postfix -- SMTP
Cyrus -- IMAP and POP3
Amavis -- scans email before delivery with an anit-virus program
Sophos -- Anti-Virus
Horde/IMP -- webmail framework
Apache -- webserver for webmail
MySQL -- holds some data for webmail

This combination works great.
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Thanks for this tips, damonbrinkley sounds like you have all the bases covered, and definitley, containing viruses is a must.
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