mail server setup [newbie]

[nielchiano]

Hi,

I'm no newbie on networking, but I don't have any experience with mail servers...

I want to setup a local SMTP server to do the following tasks:

• Recieve the incomming mail from fetchmail (and put it in the maildir mailboxes)
  
• receive mail from clients on the local network and either
  
• relay them to my ISP-s SMTP server
  
• deliver them localy
  

I took a look around and found that there is a great choice on mail servers. Here is my (totaly incomplete list) and my current pros/cons:

• sendmail: pro: i have the O'Reilly; con: looks WAY to complex
  
• postfix: pro: seen a lot of posts about it; cons: none, realy
  
• exim: don't know anything
  
• qmail: ???
  

Any ideas what to use? Why?

[mpyne]

I used this topic to get my email server working.

HTH!