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Mail Server

Ubuntu Server Edition comes with an easy to set up mail server. To install it, just select it at the end of the server install process or launch the tasksel command on an already installed server.

Ubuntu's mail server is composed of two of the most renowned open source packages: Postfix and Dovecot. Postix is a mail transfer agent, or in other words, the software that routes and delivers emails. Dovecot is the agent that talks with email software using IMAP or POP3 protocols. Both have been written with security, scalability and simplicity in mind and are used by the largest internet providers.

Main Postfix features include:

• SMTP, LMTP & QMQP protocol support for mail routing and delivery

• Delivery Status Notification

• ETRN support, which allows for mail servers to be sitting behind a non permanent connection

• IPv6 support

• MIME encoding

• Pipelining of multiple message in the same connexion

• SASL (through Dovecot plugin)

• TLS support for encrypted connection

• Multiple Junk mail control features and plugins

• Multiple database support (SQLor LDAP based)

• Maildir and mailbox formats for storing emails

• Virtual domains support

• Address masquerading and rewriting

Dovecot provides the following functionalities:

• POP3 & IMAP support

• Self-optimising indexes

• Self-healing of most problems encountered

• Support for clustered access to the same user files

• CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, APOP, NTLM, GSS-SPNEGO, Kerberos v5, RPA and one-time password authentication stored in files, LDAP or SQL databases

• Multiple workarounds for clients that do not conform to RFC (such as Outlook, Thunderbird or others)

• Multiple plugins to add functionality (quota, access control lists, expiration, full text search indexing, etc...)

Ubuntu Server Edition 8.04 adds the support of Amavid-new, an interface between postfix and content checkers (such as virus scanners or junk mail filter) which support most of the the products available on the market, whether free or non-free software.

New in 8.10:

ClamAV antivirus and SpamAssassin are now part of the main repository, which make them fully supported and maintained options, and can both be easily integrated with postfix using amavisd-new.