On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 08:57:31PM +0000, Paul Grenyer wrote:
Hi all
I want to create an email server so that I can send and receive email for a number of my domains. I've tried using postfix, but it's a pig to setup and it appears I need to have a user account on the server
In my experience postfix is the easiest to set up, exim4 is a little more difficult and sendmail needs a two inch thick book.
for every email address and I can't restrict one user to only one domain. e.g. if I create a user called paul and I have two domains, I get paul@domain1 and paul@domain2. Of course this could be my misunderstanding.
I have all my 'aliasing' if you like set up outside of the postfix set up, e.g. on my domain isbd.co.uk (hosted at TsoHost) I have several addresses all of which are forwarded to chris@isbd.co.uk so my postfix server here on my home machine just has to receive E-Mail for chris@isbd.co.uk.
So, I would like recommendations for a mailserver to run on ubuntu. Ideally I'd like it to be:
- Easy to setup
- Not require a user to be created for each email address.
- Be able to create email addresses for individual domains
- Web interface
- Work with mailman
- Support pop/imap
- Support email forwarding.
I think you're asking for several separate things! :-)
Postfix is an SMTP server (as are exim4 and sendmail) as well as being an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent).
POP and IMAP4 servers are totally different beasts doing a different job.