On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 10:08 -0700, Wayne Catterton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently have an old qmail toaster (customized some) setup. I have
> been wanting to build a new mail server for a while, and just finally
> got around to doing it. My old system is setup with qmail, vpopmail,
> squirrelmail, spam assassin, smtpauth, autorespond, qmailadmin,
> vqadmin, clamav, courier-imap, daemontools, ezmlm, qmail mrtg,
> ucspi-tcp, qmail-scanner, and tmda. At any rate, I'm getting quite a
> bit of spam coming through, and it seems that people sending mail to
> my servers ignore the TMDA, so the user ends up having to look in the
> pending queue and release messages and such, so I've decided tha TMDA
> has to go.
>
> Upon looking for what I wanted in a new mail system, I started with
> the qmail route again (but I wanted to make the install easier), so I
> looked at qmailrocks, started getting it setup, then ran into
> problems, and not much help, so I junked it, and installed
> qmailtoaster (I have to say it was an easy install, and I got
> everything working and up quickly), however I find myself dizzy and
> confused when figuring out how everything is working, and configs are
> scattered throughout the system.
>
> One of the things I really want to implement is Dspam, I've been
> reading alot about it, and decided that I really want to have it on my
> mail system, and I was unable to really implement it the way I wanted
> on the qmailtoaster and documentation is slim.
>
> So I looked at alternative MTA's and found postfix. It looks like
> it's exactly what I'm looking for, however I am not sure on what all I
> need to install to keep the mail system fairly secure and protected.
> So I started looking through installation documentation for various
> setup's, and so far, I've decided I wanted: postfix, dovecot (imap
> and pop3), dspam (of course), virtual users/domains (mysql setup),
> clamav, sasl (smtpauth), mysql, Mailman, squirrelmail, and some kinda
> of GUI frontend (I saw postfix admin and I think that will do it).
>
> What I'm wondering is if I missed something, is there something vital
> I missed as far as security/mail processing?
>
> Also as far as dspam, do you have any reccomendations, I've looked
> through documentation on it, however it can be fairly complex. I know
> I want to have a spam and nospam address for users to forward email
> to. maybe setup some spam/nospam IMAP folders as well (to be used
> from squirrelmail as another mechanism).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne Catterton CCNA
> Network Engineer
> Scappoose, OR
i think you had better use "google apps" instead of postfix ;;
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