As the title suggests, I need to set up a mail server (supposedly in Linux) for opt-in email - three thousand subscribers more or less. The list of people is currently stored in an access database ...

ok I am a newbie to Linux..I know it comes with sendmail, but is sendmail just a client or both email server/client? I am using SuSe 7.1 on a Windows network, so far I can get my Windows machines ...