From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 04:58:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC9C16A4E1 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:58:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1A343D92 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:58:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id x3so455059nzd for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:58:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Z1yyGVRySpQuy6I9FEsRyofZ84yFmSJqYpSiYjtTvT6wcDoqhpc2jt6eUdUmFmzJiPPotynis6cUFlgdKvVHwnzTFzDzMb2eqNDnNCFcfzynzakzu5FO0yiWIQjZ63fZOaRwM629Fmb19DQX6I0M4h9WUyCO+eZRpGXw6AWYFuE= Received: by 10.65.122.20 with SMTP id z20mr3235915qbm; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.103.15 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:58:05 +0800 From: "jan gestre" To: "Steve Lake" In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20060818003418.00be4ad0@192.168.0.30> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5.2.0.9.2.20060818003418.00be4ad0@192.168.0.30> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:58:19 -0000 On 8/18/06, Steve Lake wrote: > > Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through > setting up a mail server with the following items on it. > > SpamAssassin > Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) > MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) > MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) > Squirrelmail (for webmail) > Apache (for squirrelmail) > Dovecot Imap (for squirrelmail) > Postfix Admin <- this is the reason for the need to have a mysql driven > mail user database. It's apparently required for this to work. Plus > database driven user management tends to be easier. Of course, if you > know > of a better way to graphically admin mail users without using a database, > I'm all ears. :) > And lastly, some kind of web based server admin page that's similar to > webmin, but more secure. > > I want to setup a mail server with all these elements, have > postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot be database driven and somehow create a > mailbox tree for the webmail users for saved, spam, sent and trashcan > folders. Also, lastly, which format for mail is better? Maildir or > Mbox? I'm partial to Mbox, but I've heard some others say Maildir is > better. The server is only going to host about 30-40 users for a realty > company, so security is priority, plus it needs to have ease of > administration because the guy who's going to admin this in the end (I'm > just building it, he's maintaining it) isn't unix savy. I've already done > a lot of google diving, but with little luck. Hence why I'm asking > here. If someone knows of a good guide or series of guides that'll help > me > through all this, it'd be greatly appreciated. I'm used to doing this the > hard way with sendmail and the regular freebsd users through the > console. So I'm really new to postfix, but I'm using it because it's > supposedly more secure. I'd have the guy who's admining it do the same, > but he's too green in the console to risk it. ;) > > try using google, it will point you to the tutorial's url but since you > already posted that question here, the postfix website has lots of howto in > setting up a mailserver, i for one used the howto's in postfix' website. but > if your too lazy to google :D this url's might help: > http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/server/install_fbsd/ http://www.astro.ufl.edu/it/install/freebsd.html here a suggestion, instead of using squirrelmail try using roundcube, we use > it here in our office. roundcube's ajax like interface's absolutely awesome > compared to squirrelmail bland interface, you can install it via subversion. > dovecot is a good choice for imap and pop3 service. postfix can support both > mbox and maildir but i prefer maildir. you can secure your box by chrooting > postfix or putting it behind a firewall. there are so many ways to make it > fully secure, those i mentioned are just a few of them. HTH