Linux email server recommendation wanted!

[don_ebner]

After 15 years in IT (Netware, OS/2, NT and light Linux administration) I purchased a non IT company and would like to bring email in house (it's hosted by our web hoster now).

We only have 5 email users out of 14 total employees, so performance is not an issue. All of the users but me use POP clients, I prefer a web client. I have a year old X86 system I can dedicate to just Linux for email.

My goals are; ease of installation, web based email administration and POP/web client support. Anyone know of a Linux distribution that meets all of these needs?

Several years ago I set up a SUSE V8 machine for email with webmin that achieved all of these goals except web client support. It took me a couple of days back then as I had a Postfix/Sendmail config problem that prevented outbound mail from succeeding. I'm guessing there is a Linux distribution that will make all of this pretty easy? Don Ebner

[daark.child]

Any distro should do, but non will just work out of the box for things like email servers because a little bit of manual configuration is needed. I personally use CentOS 5 with postfix (I find it a lot easier to administer than Sendmail). For webmail, I use Squirrelmail. You can also install webmin on CentOS if you wish.

[don_ebner]

Thanks for the advice, I'll give CentOS a try. I expect some configuration, just didn't want to go through a huge learning curve. Don Ebner