From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 9 03:46:49 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 A212516A41C for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:46:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpb@infocom.ph) Received: from smtp3.infocom.ph (smtp3.infocom.ph [203.172.25.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4311443D45 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:46:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpb@infocom.ph) Received: from localhost (localhost.infocom.ph [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3.infocom.ph (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB798B244D; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:46:47 +0800 (PHT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ddu1.infocom.ph [203.172.31.176]) by smtp3.infocom.ph (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E6EB245D; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 11:46:42 +0800 (PHT) Message-ID: <42CF489F.3030400@infocom.ph> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:46:39 +0800 From: Rommell Barcela Organization: Infocom Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Goodell" References: <20050708184531.56544.qmail@web32402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050708184531.56544.qmail@web32402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Webmail Recommendations 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: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 03:46:49 -0000 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.