Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:36:28 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> Subject: Re: small mail server Message-ID: <200612200636.46067.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <45891D18.8010205@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> References: <45891D18.8010205@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>
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--nextPart1598978.zBcFpucthY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:23, Robin Becker wrote: > I'm looking for some advice on using one of our existing freebsd 6.x > servers as a mail server for a small number (<20) of users. > > Our existing provider gives us > > 1) pop3/IMAP for reading mail > 2) SMTP for sending, but we need to read mail before using smtp; I guess > this implies we don't need to authenticate directly. > 3) web based interface for adding users and redirections etc etc > 4) spam filtering (presumably based on their large user mail volume). > 5) white/grey listing I would suggest postfix, spamassassin/procmail set server wide and the=20 pop/imap server of your choice. Both postfix and spamassassin have detailed= =20 how-to's on their sites. IMHO postfix is much easier to configure than=20 sendmail, but then I haven't used sendmail in years. Make sure you use the= =20 spamassassin binary (spamd) or it can get very slow. Spamassassin has=20 whitelist/greylist, blacklist and RBH available. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1598978.zBcFpucthY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFiViNR5sEeCt9j00RAjiyAJ9dDIlepOXTS5IFi9nzkKjYZBbOKgCgky07 mg6W0VXjddOv4VSMboU5ybk= =aacw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1598978.zBcFpucthY--
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