I see your point about imap and Squirrel mail. Since I posted I have seen squirrel mail plugged by a lot of people on their sites as well as Cyrus imap. I wasn't even thinking about folder access with web based email, but imap would be the choice for that. Thanks for the heads up. I'm just looking into hosting my own email at home instead of being stuck with my ISP's. Mostly I think it will be fun to setup. So I won't be supporting anyone but my wife and myself. I don't even have an ip or domain yet Im just trying to read as much as I can before my ISP makes the change.
Thanks to both of you for your advice. One question I haven't found out in reading archives it this: Would it for any reason be a bad idea to setup all of the services on the same box...being postfix, squirrelmail, apache, and imap? (Of course this is theoretical as I haven't started yet) Thanks! Aaron -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Schmidlkofer Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 9:46 AM To: PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group Subject: Re: [PDXLUG] Sendmail, pop, and NOCC Robby Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 14:48 -0700, Aaron McIntosh wrote: > >>Anyone have any good online resources for setting up sendmail, pop and >>NOCC? Or if you have better suggestions that would be great too! >> >>Thanks >> >>Aaron > I will second Robby's plug for Postfix. Some people would disagree, but postfix is a lot better of an MTA for most cases. Sendmail can to anything - it is almost scary. It has these tragic config files, that actually have to be compiled, etc, etc. If you have a choice, and don't know the reasons why you should choose one or the other: choose postfix. there are a ton of pop servers. I used Solar Designers pop3 daemon when I need it. He has a great history in the online security. http://www.openwall.com/popa3d/ As far as webmail, I quite NOCC - I have not used it in 2 years. maybe it has improved. I went to Squirrelmail, and whatever else it is it is: Stable, Speedy, and flexible. I use it primarily with Cyrus-IMAPD. Cyrus is pretty cool, it has a wierd security setup. However, it is bar-none the most featured imap server that I ahve used. There is also DBMail, and several others. Why are you doing Pop3? If you need to put in service, to most people I recommend IMAP, since it has server-side message storage. Complete with folders, [and with Cyrus you get sharing and ACLs, etc, etc.] thanks, Joshua _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
