Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tannis McLaine <gamesomedude@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Seeking Mail Server Suggestions Message-ID: <20050718095303.20646.qmail@web33913.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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