From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 10:20:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B318D16A41F for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:20:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@yazzy.org) Received: from mail.yazzy.org (mail.yazzy.org [217.8.140.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F1F43D49 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:20:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@yazzy.org) Received: from 217-13-2-82.dd.nextgentel.com ([217.13.2.82] helo=h311r4z3r) by mail.yazzy.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (YazzY.org) id 1DuSju-0006x0-6N; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:20:47 +0200 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:20:57 +0200 From: Marcin Jessa To: Tannis McLaine 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> Organization: YazzY.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.12 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking Mail Server Suggestions 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: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:20:58 -0000 On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Tannis McLaine 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