Linux for mail server

Mark M

Mark M

Mark M

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Im a total noob to Linux and someone has suggested using scalix mail server a try.

Firstly is this wise? I have never istalled anything linux at all!!

Secondly, do you know is scalix is extremely difficult to install or should I work it out?

Thirdly, what is the best "linux" to go for a mail server and possilby file server , or does it not matter? I keep reading about distros such as ubuntu. Is this just the GUI part of linux?
 
Can Qmail share calenders etc? Basically Im looking for the functionality of Exchange. Also can it use Outlook as its mail client? The other computers will all be windows based with outlook already installed.
 
It will only be for 3, maybe 4 computers, but they dont want to shell out on exchange with it being such a small setup
 
Just about to try and get this up and running.

When Im downloading the scalix file which one to I need to go for?

Binary Server Packages
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / CentOS 4 .bin
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / CentOS 5 .bin
Fedora 7 .bin
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 .bin
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0 .bin
SUSE Linux Open Source Software (OSS) 10.2 .bin
Debian*

Source Packages
Source .tgz MD5 Checksum

Also is it ok to download this on a windows machine and then transfer to a linux machine via USB pen drive?

Thanks
 
Oh, I feel really stupid now. Didnt realise that the different OS's were in the filenames!! Not sure how I quite missed that to be honest!!

NicNac - havent had a chance to have a look at it really. Going to spend some time over the weekend having a play around.
 
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