After digging and trying out a couple things, I have settled on a solution (for now).
I found a good article over at http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-etch/ (http://workaround.org has some other interesting articles as well...). This article covers setting up a Postfix/Dovecot/MySQL based system, with Amavis and Postgrey (greylisting) if desired. There's even a bit in there on setting up Squirell (I'm going to try out RoundCube though). This article is thorough, though you'll have to make appropriate changes for your set up (db passwords, etc.). Overall, that article is very detailed and covers everything you need. In my case I installed on a Ubuntu 7.10 server, but the commands were all the same. The only catch seems to be in the default behavior for Dovecot SSL certificates - on Debian Etch it would seem it defaults to the dovecot.pem files generated with the listed commands. However I kept getting the default Postfix certificate. I had to add the dovecot certificates in the /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf file. (A search for ".pem" will find the only two lines there - change the paths accordingly). So far, all seems well, and the system feels snappier than the old Zimbra VM running on the same box. (I built the email system in a VM as well, so that's a non issue in comparisons...). An added bonus of doing it myself is that there is no "special" web server set up for the system. Zimbra installs "zimbra-apache", which needed port 80 and 443 preventing other websites from using those ports. So now I can run the email system on the same VM as my web server - one less (virtual) box to manage. Dovecot seems to be the new player on the block, compared to Courier and Cyrus. But from what I've seen so far, it's much easier to setup and configure - especially with regards to SASL (Dovecot has it's own SASL routines). When all is said and done, the system is "just working" the way I was expecting. I'll try this out for a while and see if there are any glaring problems. I fully expect a few hichups over the next month or so. Greylisting will take a bit to stabilize at least (auto whitelisting of common domains....). I can always try Zimbra/Scalix/Open Xchange/etc. if/when I decide this isn't working for me.... Thank you all for the suggestions and tips. If anyone is interested, I blogged a little about this : http://grover.open2space.com/node/211. (and as you can see the web pages seem to be working right as well.. :) Shawn Darcy Brodie wrote: > Hello > > During the course of this conversation, I to, have been looking at > different email server programs. While Scalix looks good, I regret to > say that no, the Community Edition does NOT support multiple domains. > They are only available in the Enterprise Edition > > Darcy _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
