Mail servers are a mess. There may be distributions out there with a good default configuration. Any deviation from there and you just want to run back to gmail.
There are, at least in my mind, 2 alternatives, which make any sense whatsoever:
citadel and kolab. kolab is the whole stack postfix, smtp auth stuff, imap, caldav, carddav, ldap, roundcube and whatnot stuck together. I'm quite sure it's a great thing once you got it running and it has everything I want. However there is no good ebuild for gentoo and the last time I tested it on a debian? ubuntu? virtual machine it asked for 10 to 20 admin passwords for different services until I lost track of what was working together with what.
citadel on the other hand is an old bbs evolved to a mail server (or groupware). It has a lot of those features as well, but the web interface is a little clunky / dated. Also its cal- and carddav interface doesn't work (at least with kde's kontact). There are a lot of features in there like message boards, blogs, chat rooms, xmpp server and so on, but what I really like is that its a mail server that is easy to install. It just wants to know an admin account, a couple of ports and a domain and you're good to go. spamd and clamav are just a enter-127.0.0.1-here away. There is sieve support, both scripting and simple rules you can click together. And as a bonus if you have admin privileges you can just enter more email addresses into your own contact information and you will start receiving on those addresses as well, thats easy aliasing for once!
So it took me at max half an hour to get it up and running to the previous state instead of weeks.
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