From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 7 5:37:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A8B14DE3 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 05:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA13031; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:37:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:37:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Jon Parise Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: webmail In-Reply-To: <19990906131026.B3490@osfmail.isc.rit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I personally like running IMP with the CMU Cyrus server--Cyrus supports quotas and a number of other features that make it great for integration with IMP. The best feature is that Cyrus is not intended to have local UNIX accounts associated with it, and can use a number of different sources of authentication information (.db files, Kerberos, and there are patches for PAM, mysql, etc). The latest versions (still beta?) support the IETF script language allowing users to write sandboxed server-side filtering rules. That feature is still experimental, but to those of us running closed servers, is a great boon. IMP has a few Cyrus-related configuration flags so that it uses the correct hierarchy characters, etc. The documentation covers it all, I believe. Robert Watson On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Jon Parise wrote: > On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 09:03:55AM -0300, Aldenor Falcao wrote: > > > I'd like to implement a free webmail site using IMP(like yahoo > > mail), in my humble condition of none experience in this matter I'll rely > > completely on everybody else mercy. Here is my questions: > > I wrote a introductory article on using imp with bsd for Daemon > News. It's available here: > > http://www.daemonnews.org/199909/imp.html > > > 1)best MTA to use(sendmail, qmail) > > Use whichever you prefer. I'm familiar with imp installations > using sendmail, qmail, and postfix. All work fine with imp, and > each has their own merits beyond the scope of imp. > > If you choose qmail and implement the Maildir format, you'll have > to use a patched imap server; qmail does not include one of its > own. > > > vmailmgr? > > As I recall, vmailmgr is used for managing virtual pop3 accounts. > It's highly recommended that you use imp with imap accounts (pop3 > support is fledgling and lacks the features of imap). > > > 2)best authentication scheme(RDBS or other) > > mysql? > > MySql works fine, as does ldap authentication. Have a look at > Jason Belich's Scalable Webmail HOW-TO for more details: > > http://horde.org/papers/Scalable_webmail_HOWTO.html > > -- > Jon Parise (parise@pobox.com) . Rochester Inst. of Technology > http://www.pobox.com/~parise/ : Computer Science House Member > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message