[ale] Linux Mail Server Recomendations

[aaron]

I have a friend doing doctoral work in interactive web development and human 
interface design. At one point I helped him set up a Linux / Apache web 
server for posting VRML projects created by he and his students.

His studies have recently necessitated a move to Baltimore. For some odd 
reason his department there couldn't provide him with an email account. He 
made the mistake of complaining about that as being somewhat aburd. Now they 
want him to set up a mail server for the department... for cheap or for free, 
of course...   to live alongside their Apache web server, which is 
unfortunately running on an eXcrement Pile box. The mail server, however, can 
be a seperate Linux box if that's the way he wants to get it done.

This person is NOT a unix savvy command line, script config kind of guy, so 
Sendmail is probably not a solution. We've had a suggestion of qmail, but I 
wanted to ask the list if there are other email server options we should look 
into, keeping in mind that ease of configuration and maintenane are the 
important factors.

Thanks for any ideas!
peace
aaron