Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:10:27 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Martin_Sol=C4=8Diansky?= <martin.solciansky@solko.sk> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: All-in-one Server Message-ID: <991123401002100810o24f22f8cl344258b7faa6eba5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <592707868.1652.1265816648780.JavaMail.root@zmail.bubble.eu> References: <4B72CFD1.90208@black-earth.co.uk> <592707868.1652.1265816648780.JavaMail.root@zmail.bubble.eu>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Martin Sol=C4=8Diansky < martin.solciansky@solko.sk> wrote: > ----- "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@black-earth.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 10/02/2010 13:58, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > Hello sysadmins, > > > > > > Happy New Year (2010)! > > > > > > Anyone knows if I can build a FreeBSD box that has: > > > > > > Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server Solution with > > > the following capabilities: > > > . http, pop, smtp, and imap email access. > > > . Global Address List facility > > > . Personal Address List facility > > > . Personal and Group Scheduling through a calendar facility > > > . System Dashboards to allow monitoring of the Managed > > > Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server. > > > . Ability for users to use the same password as that in > > windows > > > Active Directory is desired. > > > . Connector for Microsoft Outlook (Desirable) > > > > Horde or SquirrelMail + appropriate addons > > Cyrus IMAPd or Dovecot > > Sendmail or Postfix or Exim or .... > > > > You should be able to use SASL to hook up any of these to AD for > > authentication purposes. (If you choose sendmail, you'ld want the > > version from ports so you can compile it with all the SASL bits.) > > > > Horde certainly will allow you to create Global and Personal address > > books via various different back-end databases. In principle it can > > use LDAP so you might be able to bodge it into AD, but I'd recommend > > MySQL as the least grief, fastest benefit solution. > > > > Horde also provides shared and global calendars, accessilble via > > CalDAV. > > > > No idea what to recommend as a control panel for the firewall, MTA > > and > > imap servers I'm afraid. > > > > Note that Outlook is designed to work with MS Exchange, and often > > gives > > less than optimal results with other mail servers. > > You could try zimbra for all-in-one-email-solution instead of Citadel or > Horde+, that would solve most of the problems as it integrates all the bi= ts > you need into a one working opensource bundle. > > You can always write something to manage your firewall (like zimlet to > zimbra) and that greatly depends on your expectations. I don't change > firewall rules very often on my zimbra box but then again, i am the ascii > lover ;). > > kind regards, > > s. > You run Zimbra on FreeBSD? Let me see the guide you followed in order to do that although I don't love Zimbra that much because accessing it via the we= b requires so much bandwidth - unless this changed. I have seen http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=3DInstalling_GNR_on_FreeBSD_7.2_i386= but wonder if you run the latest zimbra on your FreeBSD. Does it meet my requirements? --=20 Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." -- Lucky Dube
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