From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 15 14:48:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from corey.datafast.net.au (corey.datafast.net.au [203.123.67.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D434937B503 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:48:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 57045 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Feb 2001 22:48:29 -0000 From: "Corey Ralph" Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:48:29 +1100 To: "Hudson, Henrik H." Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail Server with LDAP? Message-ID: <20010216094829.B28246@corey.datafast.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from hhudson@eschelon.com on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:30:21AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi. We are running a qmail based system with vmailmgr, for about 20k mailboxes at about 300 domains. I am very happy with it, it is rock solid and fast. It doesn't exactly fit your description, but may be worth a look anyway. On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:30:21AM -0600, Hudson, Henrik H. wrote: > Hello List- > > So, I want to get a mail server running that will do user auth via a LDAP > server which will allow me get around the problem of A)Creating local user > accounts and B) having the user at one domain not be able to have the same > name as a user at another domain. or would a MySQL server work better? > safer? easier? vmailmgr works by one system user controlling each domain, and individual password databases in each. The users can log in with their full email address or as domainuser-mailbox. It also supports ip based virtual domains, so they can log in with just the mailbox name. > The POP server to handle this? QPopper works via a PAM module and LDAP, I > think? What else? qmail-pop3d. It has an external program called checkpassword which you can replace to give different functionality. vmailmgr comes with its own. > Then we need a SMTP server to handle deliveries. Will sendmail do this? > NOTE: Please don't get into a security argument on this one :) qmail-smtpd. > Need an IMAP server too. Courier IMAP > Point me to a website with docs, etc... and I will be happy to read it :) I > was paging through the openldap.org site. Looks promising... www.qmail.org www.vmailmgr.org > The ultimate goal is to do the above, have a webmail interface to it all and We use squirrelmail, it rocks. It is written in php so it is fairly easy to make modifications. www.squirrelmail.org > not have local user accounts. Should I say screw it and go buy something > like Communigate Pro? or tinker with it? I was looking at Critical Path > stuff, but Solaris or Windoze only. > > Enlighten me people :) > > Thanks! > > Henrik > --- > Henrik Hudson > > Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" > Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" > FreeBSD: "Hey, when are you guys going to catch up" > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message