Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:20:57 +0200 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: Tannis McLaine <gamesomedude@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking Mail Server Suggestions Message-ID: <20050718122057.6375e3ab.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <20050718095303.20646.qmail@web33913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050718095303.20646.qmail@web33913.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Tannis McLaine <gamesomedude@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm not new to FreeBSD or Apache, but I am new to the > world of email serving. Some of my friends and > classmates have a server for hosting our project > websites on several domains, but we don't currently > host our own email. (Sendmail scared us!!) We have > been doing some research into the topic and have found > lots of information on specific areas, but no good > general discussion. Because of this, I ask you for > your experienced advice. What do you recommend we look > into for running our own complete mail system? Our > current setup is explained below, as are our goals for > email. We don't see instructions, just some advice and > pointers, such as which daemons/packages to user and > which to avoid. > > Currently: > * FreeBSD 5.4 on 933 MHz Pentium3, 768 MB RAM > * Apache > * ~12 user accounts, ~6 groups > * Perl scripts to handle adding/deleting users and > maintaining web space for projects and for users. > * No databases, just perl scripts and flat files. > > Email Goals: > * Incoming (via Postfix?) > * Outgoing (via Postfix and POP-before-SMTP or other > authentication?) > * IMAP and POP3 (Courier?) > * Webmail (OpenWebMail or maybe SquirrelMail) > * Spam filtering (via SpamAssassin?) > One other additional goal is to maybe implement some > sort of user database to help maintain the server (or > a cluster of servers) as our needs grow. Maybe > something with OpenLDAP or MySQL. It might be handy to > have various flags/settings for each user account, to > enable or disable "features" like "SSH Shell Access" > or to adjust quotas for each user from a central > location. We don't want or need anything overly > complex or pre-fab, but it would be nice to automate > and organize some of this information and these tasks. Check out http://high5.net/postfixadmin/ There are also commercial solutions, but I assume you don't want that. Cheers, Marcin Jessa
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