Quoting Joe Maimon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ... > >2. Hopefully use SSL or APOP<all I have read says that MS Outlook can't > >authenticate with APOP, is this true? > > > Forget APOP. IIRC you need to maintain a seperate DB for apop users of > their cleartext. Stick to SSL. qpopper supports that quite well > (read the doc)
I can support 5000 concurent clients with APOP and cleartext connections. I cannot support 200 SSL connections concurrently. While pop connections are not QUITE as short lived as https, they aren't long lived either. The SSL startup times and math are non-trivial. > >3. Allow a web interface for users to check there email as well. You may want IMAP which supports folders and expects mail to remain on the server. In contrast, POP was built with the intent that you go and get your mail and take it with yout. Note that Version 7 "mbox" files don't really scale that well (removing message 15 from a 5000 message spool file means a LOT of rewrites). > As other poster points out there are literaly hordes of them! You can > squirrel away as many as you have patience for. > (knowledge or ability to follow directions regarding apache/php setup > will be quite usefull) > > http://www.horde.org/imp/ > http://www.squirrelmail.org/ > >5. Set up sendmail so that only my users can use it. NO RELAYING!< I > >have found some info on this, but I am sure there is more somewhere. SMTP AUTH - best, but documentation from hell and hard to debug as you set it up. POPb4SMTP - workable, unideal. > If you stick to sendmail (IMHO a cross between a dragon and dinosaur - > the debate is which of its qualities is foremost) > > Install sendmail. Check your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc for the configuration > > Read the sendmail faq at www.sendmail.org > Read the tarball's doc/op/op.ps > Read the tarball's sendmail/README cf/README INSTALL files Or go buy Sendmail Switch from Sendmail Inc and use a web GUI. (they also have an IMAP server and webmail, though that's hard to figure out from the website. Words like "webmail" and "imap server" seem to come difficultly to marketing people who do web sites. That doesn't mean it doesn't work. I just fine the price a little hard to stomach for all but the largest of enterprises). > To have your users use it, configure your MTA of choice to use STARTTLS > and SMTPS. Then you can safely use SMTP AUTH for your roaming users. > > For legacy users, dracd is a nice alternative that works fine for > sendmail and qpopper installations. > http://mail.cc.umanitoba.ca/drac/
