From: Mike '/m' 


If you have no OS preferences, I'd recommend looking at the Postfix MTA
(www.postfix.org).  It's a breeze to configure, very flexible in its
configuration, and reliable.   I use it on my server in a Canada data
center, and it ran for well over a year without any problems.  I had to
take it down when I upgraded the OS, it's been running since then.

The mailing list for Postfix provides excellent support.

I know that SUSE Linux uses Postfix in its distributions.  I tend towards
FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but you'll have to  upgrade from sendmail to postfix
with those two.  It's not a big task, but just something n the checkoff
list.

Having said all that, if all you want is a reliable SMTP server to receive
the mail and a POP3 server to deliver to clients, then you might want to
look into some of the email services that provide email hosting for
corporate client outsourcing.

 /m


On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 08:18:44 -0800, Randall Parker

wrote:

>Mike,
>
>Well, they send via SMTP probably. Then we read via POP. But I was being lazy
and
>saying "POP" because one generally refers to POP servers, not
SMTP servers.
>
>Mike '/m' wrote:
>
>>
>>>the satellite services send the data packets via POP
>>
>>
>> Can you be more specific here?  Do you mean POP or SMTP?
>>
>>  /m

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