Linux Mail Server

[nathan]

Hello, quick question for you linux people out there. I'm going to create a little home mail server. the only features i want are;

Able to interface with outlook (just emails, not calender etc)

Remote access (similar to remote on exchange)

Does anyone have any recommendations on distribution or software.

I'd prefer it to be on debian or one of its close siblins as thats what i know best.

Thanks for all your help guys!

EDIT: forgot to mention it will be sucking mail down through a SMTP feed for the time being.

 

[FarFarAway]

Our mail server runs a nice lil program that looks very nice.

Wassit called XMS?

 

[JN]

Our mail server runs a nice lil program that looks very nice.

Wassit called XMS?

Kerio, but I don't think you'll want to buy that for your home server as its $500 for a 10 user base license.

I've always liked Trustix as its a very minimal and secure distro, either that or Engarde which comes with a web gui for setting up mail accounts, web sites etc..

 

[nathan]

cheers for the advice guys, i'll give those a google and read up on them.

 

[blackoper]

check out Zimbra for linux

http://www.zimbra.com/

haven't tried it yet but will be implementing it this week

 

[nathan]

woo, as this tread is back, i'll update it with a pretty good distro, its called clarkconnect. Pretty much a sbs of the linux world. Its working well in a couple of volunteer centres, wherre they need content filtering.

 

[JN]

I should have also mentioned Engarde - It's a secure linux distro with a web interface for mail, www, dns etc. Used to use it on a very large email system, but it fell over once I hit about 60k users.

 

[nathan]

I should have also mentioned Engarde - It's a secure linux distro with a web interface for mail, www, dns etc. Used to use it on a very large email system, but it fell over once I hit about 60k users.

dont think i'll hit that amount of users

 

[nunzio]

Ubuntu, with Squirrelmail and courier.

Gives you webmail, pop3/imap, and smtp.

Loads of howtos over the web, you can add spamassassin and clamav.

 

[FragTek]

Kerio mail server pwns, I can deffo vouch for that when it was running on my quad Xeon rig

 

[nunzio]

Comes with a price tag

 

[blackoper]

I love squirrelmail, but I needed something a little more "outlook like" for a multi-site business implementation. I'll check out the other recommendations as well thanks