Re: mail server recommendations?

From: Chris Shenton (chris_at_shenton.org)
Date: 04/13/04

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    To: Cody Baker <cody@wilkshire.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:27:45 -0400

    Cody Baker <cody@wilkshire.net> writes:

    > I put my personal recommendation in to qmail. I have 10 + servers
    > running qmail, some with 3000+ users. We use vpopmail for a mysql
    > based single UID/GID solution. For POP3 access we're using the
    > integrated qmail-pop3d, and courier-IMAP for IMAP. Virus scanning /
    > MIME-magic is done via qmail-scanner and clamscan.

    I'm deploying a system for a client using qmail-ldap, openldap, and
    courier-imap. I plan on using sqwebmail for webmail. I've got
    STARTTLS on SMTP and IMAP, and also offer SMTPS, IMAPS, and POPS. Nice
    thing about this architecture is that you can have a handful of
    MTA/IMAP/POP boxes all delivering to a shared NFS-mounted backend
    mailstore -- very robust.

    I've also installed a qmail + vpopmail-based system for an ISP and
    it's been rock solid. I didn't need to use MySQL for this but could
    have -- or probably even LDAP for user accounts.

    I use the qmail smtpd viruscan patch

      http://www.qmail.org/qmail-smtpd-viruscan-1.3.patch

    to block all MS executables and have seen a dramatic drop in virii.
    Simple: if an an attachment's first line looks like a base-64-encoded
    version of an MS executable, it's rejected; doesn't rely on
    signatures, or purported suffixes, or forged mime-types, etc.

    I haven't done anything but looking at antispam solutions. Currently
    looking at DSPAM and CRM114 as they seem to be quite effective (10x
    human accuracy, they both claim). But I haven't yet done anything
    serious about integrating them, and haven't worried per-user
    configuration, quarantining, etc. I'd be interested what others have
    used successfully.

    Be careful if you're using SMTP AUTH, STARTTLS, or SMTPS and want to
    use an external anti-spam/virus product: I haven't
    found an antispam vendor yet that supports this, tho a couple have it
    in the works. If you integrate directly on your MTA boxes, it should
    be less difficult -- once you figure out how to integrate them :-)

    > I am particularly fond of qmail because once it's setup it's very
    > easy to use, and is ROCK solid.

    Absolutely. Nice not to worry about the frequent sendmail or less
    frequent postfix security fixes. "It just works". Not trying to
    evangelize here, just switched from sendmail years ago and won't go
    back. Learning curve's a little steep, all the daemontools and
    ucspi-tcp helper stuff but they do work better than the common
    equivalents (syslog, inetd, etc).

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