From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 10 17:13:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4951065695 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@leander-damme.com) Received: from post.eye-motion.net (post.eye-motion.net [80.237.255.163]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C703C8FC0C for ; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (manage.eye-motion.net [80.237.255.161]) by post.eye-motion.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F31D51C10; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from post.eye-motion.net ([80.237.255.163]) by localhost (eye-motion.net [80.237.255.161]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67876-09; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.3.30] (unknown [85.183.55.17]) by post.eye-motion.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DBEECD51C09; Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Leander Damme In-Reply-To: <4B72CFD1.90208@black-earth.co.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:54:27 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <991123401002100558s4c92e4efl21ca3bb54cbabcda@mail.gmail.com> <4B72CFD1.90208@black-earth.co.uk> To: Odhiambo Washington X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: All-in-one Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:13:44 -0000 > On 10/02/2010 13:58, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> Hello sysadmins, >>=20 >> Happy New Year (2010)! >>=20 >> Anyone knows if I can build a FreeBSD box that has: >>=20 >> 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) >=20 > Horde or SquirrelMail + appropriate addons > Cyrus IMAPd or Dovecot > Sendmail or Postfix or Exim or .... Postfix(with mysql support) & Dovecot work fine for me Postfixadmin can be used as a config panel (ugly php - but works more or = less) http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/ > 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.) >=20 > 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. >=20 you could try egroupware as an alternative to horde http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/ I think it supports syncml to integrate with Outlook and mobile devices. > Horde also provides shared and global calendars, accessilble via > CalDAV. I have tried the Darwin calendar and contact Server with FreeBSD = recently - but would not recommend it in a productive enviroment > No idea what to recommend as a control panel for the firewall, MTA and > imap servers I'm afraid. >=20 > Note that Outlook is designed to work with MS Exchange, and often = gives > less than optimal results with other mail servers.