From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 18:43: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk-systems.com (hawk-systems.com [161.58.152.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B788237B40B for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 18:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: from WS1 (ws1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [204.50.158.15]) by hawk-systems.com (8.11.2) id f7D1gvr67211; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:42:57 -0600 (MDT) From: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) To: "Marius Kirschner" , Subject: RE: mail server question Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:39:44 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG take a bit of getting used to (to be honest), but it is easy to add/remove accounts, domains the whole works (we do it all via custom PHP/web interface) For the client end, the only problen you run into is that webmail likes ssl connections, though you can compile without it... read apache and name virtual host and ssl problems available everywhere. otherthan that, just put the CGI's in the apprpriate server cgi directory... and each customer accesses the same interface. no replication required per customer. it is better if you are familiar with FreeBSD/Apache/CGI's and can hack shell scripts and install configs... after the installation though, very low overhead from admin POV... and customers wet themselves over the control they get via the interfaces. Dave >-----Original Message----- >From: Marius Kirschner [mailto:marius@agoron.com] >Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 3:22 PM >To: Dave; questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: mail server question > > >Indeed, this is not the solution to my problem, however, this is exactly >what I was looking for for another upcoming project. Thanks a bunch, Dave. >I do have a question though, since so many programs (15) are involved it >getting this up and running isn't it an administrative hassle to maintain >it? It seems like a lots of work just for virtual mail hosting. > >---Marius > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dave >> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 12:45 PM >> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: RE: mail server question >> >> >> While this is not an asnwer to your sendmail dilema... would >> suggest a far more >> usable mail solution for virtual hosting. >> >> take a look at http://matt.simerson.net/computing/qmail.toaster.shtml >> >> has everything including virtual domain, web adminsitration, webmail the >> works... if you are familiar with directory structure, config >> editing, and >> apache you can easily modify this so each virtual domain uses >> thier own mail >> admin and webmail services... Havn't looked back at sendmail since. >> >> Dave > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message