From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 19:57:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93ABF16A4DA for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:57:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2A443D46 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:57:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so499269uge for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:57:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=uqc5QP0CHl0ddy8hXA4Ypx22A3STUmtuMjELxVTjFgnHxk/nYBxepfP3fNAaOtu6/laRmQaU9QxaN3IZWp3KwyrQRzVpuItoh+MvHzMaFQHC903+22qxLhTouwNPjUSXReqC9KY8eqglFohx1zO1ZIsj/n/xY+dtGmcwAfXQ+iQ= Received: by 10.78.140.17 with SMTP id n17mr684690hud; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.141.18 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:56:11 +0800 From: "jan gestre" To: albi In-Reply-To: <44BE4A8F.7070700@scii.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060719144621.20649.qmail@web38713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <44BE4A8F.7070700@scii.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "Allen D. Tate" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 - Web & Mail Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:57:43 -0000 On 7/19/06, albi wrote: > > Allen D. Tate wrote: > > > I am preparing to setup a FreeBSD 6.1 machine with Apache/MySQL/PHP for > > my web server and I am curious as to your thoughts on the best mail > > server to install and why. Any mail server I should steer clear from at > > all costs? Thanks in advance for your input. > > software-wise : > > dovecot + postfix + squirrelmail has proven to me to be the most > flexible and easiest to set up and maintain > > hardware-wise : > > depends on the amount of users + activity i think, the more RAM the > happier the setup for webmail > > > i ran squirrelmail before with courier-imap and postfix but now i'm > running dovecot + postfix and roundcube as webmail client, have no problems > so far, and you gotta see roundcube its cool better than squirrel and very > easy to configure. although it is still in the development stage it's good > enough for production use, for starters roundcube has drag and drop > features, ain't that great? but i suggest you use the svn version instead of > the ports. HTH