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Old 20th May 2008
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QMail is okay if you know the ins and outs of SMTP, know how to patch software, know how to compile software, and don't mind searching around the Internet to find all the patches for the features you want to enable in QMail. IOW, it's generally not worth the time to use.

Postfix is very nice, has a simple (yet powerful) config file syntax that's written in plain English, and can be configured to do just about anything you can think of. It also interfaces very nicely with various IMAP, AV, and Spam filtering engines (amavisd-new, spamassassin, dspam, clamav, etc). You really can't go wrong using Postfix.

For IMAP, the current trend seems to be to use Dovecot. It's a nice, simple, easy-to-configure IMAP server that has good performance and lots of features. Be sure to configure it for Maildir storage and not mbox.

Adding Squirrelmail into the mix is very simple. I find the best method is to install it from source into /usr/local/share/squirrelmail-x.y.z and then symlink (or use an Apache Alias) it into /usr/local/www/data/webmail. That way, you can do upgrades by just installing the new tarball into /usr/local/share/squirrelmail-a.b.c, create a new symlink (or Alias) for testing, and then just point the webmail/ link (or Alias) to it when you are ready.

There's lots of documentation on Postfix, Dovecot, and Squirrelmail available on their respective websites, and quite a bit of it gets installed on your system along with them.
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