Seeking Mail Server Suggestions

From: Tannis McLaine (gamesomedude_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/18/05

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    Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT)
To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org

    I'm not new to FreeBSD or Apache, but I am new to the
    world of email serving. Some of my friends and
    classmates have a server for hosting our project
    websites on several domains, but we don't currently
    host our own email. (Sendmail scared us!!) We have
    been doing some research into the topic and have found
    lots of information on specific areas, but no good
    general discussion. Because of this, I ask you for
    your experienced advice. What do you recommend we look
    into for running our own complete mail system? Our
    current setup is explained below, as are our goals for
    email. We don't see instructions, just some advice and
    pointers, such as which daemons/packages to user and
    which to avoid.

    Currently:
    * FreeBSD 5.4 on 933 MHz Pentium3, 768 MB RAM
    * Apache
    * ~12 user accounts, ~6 groups
    * Perl scripts to handle adding/deleting users and
    maintaining web space for projects and for users.
    * No databases, just perl scripts and flat files.

    Email Goals:
    * Incoming (via Postfix?)
    * Outgoing (via Postfix and POP-before-SMTP or other
    authentication?)
    * IMAP and POP3 (Courier?)
    * Webmail (OpenWebMail or maybe SquirrelMail)
    * Spam filtering (via SpamAssassin?)

    One other additional goal is to maybe implement some
    sort of user database to help maintain the server (or
    a cluster of servers) as our needs grow. Maybe
    something with OpenLDAP or MySQL. It might be handy to
    have various flags/settings for each user account, to
    enable or disable "features" like "SSH Shell Access"
    or to adjust quotas for each user from a central
    location. We don't want or need anything overly
    complex or pre-fab, but it would be nice to automate
    and organize some of this information and these tasks.

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