[plug] Mail Server thoughts

[Craig Ringer]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:14 +0800, Timothy White wrote:

> I was thinking of using dovecot as I've used it before and like it.
> I'm not sure what MTA I'll use yet as Ubuntu comes with postfix but
> I've used exim4 before.

IMO: Learn postfix.

> I want the users mail to be stored in a Maildir in their home directory.
> For my home directory (not the others) it will be mounted over NFS
> from my workstation which has the bigger disks.

AFAIK, Linux NFS + Mail = Bad (splat!) . I certainly know that Cyrus
IMAPd has dire warnings about using Linux's NFS implemementation
anywhere near its mail spools.

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Craig Ringer