Re: Seeking Mail Server Suggestions

From: Marcin Jessa (lists_at_yazzy.org)
Date: 07/18/05

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To: Tannis McLaine <gamesomedude@yahoo.com>

    On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT)
    Tannis McLaine <gamesomedude@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > 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.

    Check out http://high5.net/postfixadmin/
    There are also commercial solutions, but I assume you don't want that.

    Cheers,
    Marcin Jessa

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