UbuntuHelp:PostfixCompleteVirtualMailSystemHowto/zh

Abstract

There are many howtos in the Internet about setting up mail servers and various people has various choice of MTAs. Some like, Qmail, while some like Postfix or Exim. I have been using Qmail for a long time and it is an excellent MTA. The way the Qmail is licensed and distributed that there are no binary packages so that users can easily setup with their favorite distribution, and installing basic Qmail setup even is not that difficult but users need applied various patches and tweaks etc to get a complete setup done. With all these issues Qmail is the preferred choice of many geeks, since it won't give you head ache once up and running. The drawback is that this system is difficult to upgrade since users need to compile the source code and install. The decision behind this guide is to use Postfix,an equally secure and fast MTA like Qmail, it is easy to configure and setup a Basic System in any Linux distribution. Postfix has many add-ons and support Maildir format, PostgreSQL and MySQL backend for storing and managing virtual domains very easily. This setup will be a complete virtual mail domain systems , with anti-virus and spam filtering for ISPs , hosting companies, and individual corporations who wish to use Ubuntu Linux as there preferred server platform.

在网上有许多HOWTO来描述如何创建邮件服务器,不同的人对MTAs有不同选择.有的人喜欢用Qmail有些人喜欢用Postfix和Exim.很长一段时间内我都喜欢用Qmail来做为我的MTA,它是一个极好的软件.但是Qmail是需要许可证的,没有源代码发放.