On 17:41 Fri 20 Jan , Jean Blignaut wrote: > I was wondering what your opinions are on the best mailserver setup to > use? > > > > I have painstakingly setup an exim 4 server with exiscan spamassassin > clamav mysql courier-imap/pop3 squirrelmail (imap web interface) and vexim > (smtp account management - web interface) however I have found it at times > unpleasant to administrate and some times wonder if I should not rather > have gone with postfix or qmail
I just rebuilt my email services on my new Gentoo router/firewall etc.,
after a couple of seemingly unsolvable problems developed on my old email
server. The old server was pretty complex, I didn't document well, and I
just couldn't figure out to solve the problem.
So I resolved to make my new email server as simple as possible, always
keeping in mind security.
I used the following:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Small_Email_Server_with_Postfix_with_POP3_%28TLS%29
and
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_Gentoo%2C_Postfix%2C_Amavis
I combined and modified somewhat, managed to eliminate cyrus-sasl (never
really understood why it was being used, no mysql database, no imap (I
really never used it). I still have some minor tweaking to do, mostly based
on the some of the ideas and links at the bottom of
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml
Putting it together was fast, I think I understand every piece that went
into it, and it seems very secure.
Good luck
Bill Roberts
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