Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:46:39 +0800 From: Rommell Barcela <rpb@infocom.ph> To: "M. Goodell" <freebsdutah@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Webmail Recommendations Message-ID: <42CF489F.3030400@infocom.ph> In-Reply-To: <20050708184531.56544.qmail@web32402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050708184531.56544.qmail@web32402.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hi,
M. Goodell wrote:
> I know this question has been asked several times in various posts,
> however I want to ask it again with requirements specific to our
> needs. I work for a small firm and we are gearing up to host a few
> websites and would like to provide webmail for them.
>
> There is a huge selection of webmail options to choose from out there
> and I have tried a couple of them only to experience a large degree
> of frustration trying to put all of the pieces together and have them
> work properly.
Since this is what I am currently using, for almost 3yrs now without any
problems, I guess I'll have to suggest a postfix+amavisd-new
+spamassassin+clamav+spamd for AV/AS gateway and squirrelmail+vpopmail
+qmail+qmailadmin+vqadmin+courier-imap for mail storage.
> This is what we would like:
>
> 1 - Virtual mail accounts so we can have several email accounts
> without requiring a system user account.
vpopmail does this. It also supports a per domain disk and user quota,
via CLI or vqadmin.
> 2 - Clear / complete documentation - is this asking too much in the
> open source world? It would be nice to have some good well written
> documentation and reference material opposed to having to Google a
> solution to a problem most of the time.
Everything listed above seems to have a detailed documentation.
> 3 - Scalability - We want to have something that will grow with us
> and not have performance suffer as a result of growth.
You can setup your applications on separate boxes.
incoming mail
|
multiple Postfix+SA+Clamav servers
|
separate boxes for Apache, your chosen DB, etc. you can also plug in
perdition
> 4 - Ease of maintenance - would like to be able to add / edit /
> delete / maintain user accounts and the system quickly and easily.
vqadmin manages/creates domains and users, great for your company email
administrator. qmailadmin lets the client manage his own domain -
add/delete/etc. users.
> 5 - Installation / configuration - Are there some applications versus
> others where the installation and configuration is better / intuitive
> and user / admin friendly.
This is why I just used a vanilla qmail, and let postfix do all the
filtering.
Everything is on FreeBSD ports. I've been portupgrade-ing my setup for a
while now. Never had problems. But be sure to read changelogs before
doing so.
> I am listening . . .
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> - Michael
Cheers.
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