[wellylug] Linux mail programs like Mercury?

[Phil Daintree]

Sendmail has a bad reputation for requiring a degree to set up and maintain.
However with the macro commands even I mastered it. Sendmail is the mail
transport for a hugh chunk of the worlds email and is rock solid. Most
distributions come with it and have default configurations for most
situations. I use Suse and it sets up sendmail by default. It is worth the
effort to learn the basics at least. It has all the aliasing forwarding you
will ever need. The complexity comes because it has that many options and
facilities. My configuration uses procmail to deliver messages locally ie
putting the mail in user mail boxes - procmail again is industrial strength
and can also be used to filter out virus attachements for windows clients.
Sendmail is just an smtp mail relay ie for receiving and sending mail. I use
qpopper for the pop3 mail server for windows clients to connect to and
retrieve email.

I previously used mercury on an NT server and had to muck about with it all
the time. No offence to David Harris intended. But Sendmail/procmail/qpopper
has worked unseen and silently for 18 months 24x7 without a single hitch.

Phil Daintree

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lorraine Offord & Tony Wills" <ajwills at paradise.net.nz>
To: <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: [wellylug] Linux mail programs like Mercury?



To show my absolute ignorance of Linux mail systems, is there a Linux mail
routing program (POP3, SMTP clients and servers) as flexible and easy to
setup as the Mercury mail system (originally written for novel networks by
the same guy who does Pegasus) ??

At the moment I have setup a Win95 machine running Mercury to act as a mail
gateway for a small network for a non-profit group (receives mail from a
single group mailbox via dialup connection, and distributes it to
individual mailboxes on the local network, also collects mail from the
local network and distributes it to the local network or outside world as
appropriate)

Works pretty well, and non-technical users can control it via menus for
simple user management etc.

I would like to transfer it to a Linux box but there is no Linux version of
Mercury available either.

Can someone save me trawling through innumerable mail programs to find
something suitable?

--- Tony


At 00:41 28-11-01 +1300, Steve Withers wrote:

>> Or Pegasus which is a New Zealand product.

>Good suggestion Peter.
>
>I see Pegasus 4.01 is now out.
>
>No linux version though. :-)
...



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