[LUG] Linux distro - help needed

[jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Posted by "Jeremy Pearson" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


I'm the ICT technician for the Five Islands School on the Isles of Scilly, and I'm 
looking to build a mail server based on the Linux platform. Does anoyone know of any 
"out of the box" distros which would be specifically suited to this? I can't be the 
first person in the world who's tried to do it. I need a solution which includes 
webmail (Horde/IMP, or Squirrelmail?) and Samba file sharing so I can back up emails 
onto a Windows 2000 server tape drive.

I've tried SME Server 6 (aka "e-smith"), which seems perfect for this, except email 
addresses are limited to 12 characters. Hugely frustrating, but otherwise brilliant.

I can probably cobble something together using standard Linux components (probably 
Debian+exim+wu-imap+Samba+Apache+PHP+MySQL+Horde), but a ready-made distro would 
save me a *lot* of time.

Thanks in advance!

Regards;
Jeremy
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