As long as you aren't needing to using postfix it might be worth a shot. Oh, it also includes webmail. It's pretty complete.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:38:15PM -0700, Shawn Grover wrote: > Thanks for the info Jeff. I'm trying to build such a server, so this might > be worth checking into. I still don't have email working properly (after 4 > days of trying now) - SMTP (outgoing) works fine, POP3/IMAP (incoming) > doesn't. I was planning on contacting the Postfix mailing list to address > the remaining issues, but if E-Smith can do what I need with little pain > then I might be better off here. > > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Clement [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: (clug-talk) Mini-review of E-Smith Linux > > > E-Smith was something brought up quite a bit back in the old days of > Clug but hasn't been mentioned recently so I thought I would remind and > also share some of my recent experiences with it. (Before someone asks > I'm not being paid for this I just really like the product) > > First off the URLS: > http://www.e-smith.org/ (developer website -free version) > http://linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=13 (linux ISO has downloads) > > E-Smith is a Linux distro that is indended for small company / personal > network servers. It's a simple canned RH7.3 based distro that includes > a the following: > - SMTP server (uses qmail) > - POP3 / IMAP (with SSL I believe) > - HTTP (Apache with SSL and PHP) > - Samba > - Mac equivalent to Samba > - FTP > - Backups (to tape or local machine) > - NAT > - SQUID (supports transparent proxy - this is really nifty!) > - LDAP (for local users, company can use for addressbook) > - DHCP > - SSH > - PPTP (I haven't tested this since my company firewall is blocking GRE > packets) > > E-Smith is supported by a company called Mitel that is making money off > supporting it. Commercial users get a automatic security update > installing tool. Non-commercial users have to do it themselves by > downloading the RPMS off their website and installing them (fairly easy > anyways). > > There are lots of contributed RPMS for the system that provide things > like SpamAssassin plugged into QMail, procmail, squid filtering, > port forwarding, ... > > The install is simply a matter of having an empty machine with 64Mb+ of > RAM and popping the CDROM in. You answer a few questions (very, very > simple stuff like your domain name, wether to provide NAT, etc) and > voila a server. You don't have to choose drives or make partitions. It > does that for you under the assumption that this thing is a dedicated > server and the drives are for it's sole use. > > The rest of the configuration is done through a fairly decent web based > interface. You can setup users, file shares (called iBays, more on that > later), groups, mail accounts, service availability (public/private), > monitor logs, virtual hosts, printers, samba, quotas, etc. Pretty well > everything you could want on a small workgroup server. > > E-smith has this nifty feature called iBays. Basically they are file > shares that can be accessed through Samba (you can limit who can access > them), FTP, AppleTalk, and the Web (pick and choose which of these you > want. not everything should have ftp/web access :). For example if I > was working on a website for a client I can make an ibay called foobar. > I then would have a network share (through samba/appletalk) I can > connect to on my local network and use. I can also, if enabled, connect > via FTP and maintain the content. Also each iBay has a public section > that is served by apache (can be password protected). So my client can > conenct to http://server.com/foobar and see my work in progress. I > think this is a fairly neat feature and it's really easy to setup. > > I installed it on another machine at home and setup it up to accept all > of my personal e-mail. Unfortunately I get a lot of spam so I > downloaded some contrib RPMS for procmail and spamassassin and installed > them. I just go back in the control panel (both rpms added appropriate > configuration sections in the admin tool) and turned them on. > Configured hwo sensitive I wanted the SPAM filters and voila. > > I find the admin interface is rather pokey (perl cgi's) and any changes > often take 30sec or so to make (on my k62550 / 512M ram) but so far I > haven't encountered any problems. > > And if you need to make changes that are not supported by the admin > interface you can do it fairly easily. All the config files that > e-smith touches are controlled by template scripts. You can add your > own stuff to custom template scripts and ask e-smith to generate that > file. Any other times e-smith needs to change it, it will incorporate > your changes too. It's rather slick! > > Anyways. I just wanted to share how impressed I was with the package. > It seems quite solid and is certainly a lot simpler to setup as a > workgroup server than installing a normal distro and doing all this > stuff oneself. > > If anyone would like copies and can't download the ISO let me know and > I'll bring copies to the next mtg. > > Jeff > > -- > Jeffrey Clement > GPG Signature: 2956 42A8 ED8A 91F4 8CE0 A5DF 5293 8E10 6F08 7FB9 > Website : http://jclement.ca > -- Jeffrey Clement GPG Signature: 2956 42A8 ED8A 91F4 8CE0 A5DF 5293 8E10 6F08 7FB9 Website : http://jclement.ca
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