Easiest Mail Server setup on Ubuntu

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OK, that felt like 1998. I had expected that a full-blown Postfix+Dovecot with IMAP, POP3, with and without SSL and TLS, on Maildirs with virtual users and DSPAM configured would be a single apt-get install.

Anyway, what's a guide doing asking users to choose between four flavors of protocols? Just enable them all. Maildirs/mbox? Mbox is ancient, no possible reason to setup new accounts using that. And the biggest WTF has got to be the actual users created. Who wants to run a mailserver without virtual users and virtual domains in 2008 anyway?

Who wants to run a mail server now anyway? Extremely reliable email hosting with good spam filtering and anti-virus protection costs $25 a year or less. Even if you can reduce the mail server maintenance to a half-hour per year (doubtful) and if you can keep your server running and connected 99.99% of the time (doubtful), it still isn't worth your time.

Can you recommend any email hosting companies?

I was planning on building an email server this morning on Ubuntu. I thought about using GMail before setting up a full server.

I use Tuffmail. I think once last year the IMAP was down for a few hours but otherwise everything works all the time.

Hackers paradigm, if it does not kill you :)

Besides, it's always good to know about all sorts of things, including how to setup a mail server, even if you will never need one. I'm sure that there is something that you will learn in the process, which will prove itself useful in the future. For instance, while setting up my own server I learned some stuff that helped my while coding something using the python email libraries.

So nothing wrong in learning ;)

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