Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-11-02 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:10:10AM +0530, Abdullah wrote: I want to setup a mailserver on a debian machine. please help me as i have not got a perfect answer by googling. I wuld like to use squirrelmail. please help. First set up a nameserver, see /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/DNS-HOWTO.gz.

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-11-01 Thread Abdullah
I want to setup a mailserver on a debian machine. please help me as i have not got a perfect answer by googling. I wuld like to use squirrelmail. please help. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) I think Postfix is the best open source MTA available on Linux hands down. I have used Sendmail, Qmail, and Exim and none of them have given me the

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Rod James Bio
Postfix + Cyrus + SASL for simple users. You can add spamassassin + pyzor/rzor config your SASL to use LDAP or other auth method. For me postfix + cyrus is just a better combi. On Wednesday, 27 October, 2010 04:13 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct

Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread B. Alexander
Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am running on (2.4 GHz P4, 1GB RAM) is being beaten to death by java in

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 06:10 AM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am running on (2.4 GHz

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: (...) Now the mail server, since Comcast blocked port 25, is mainly used for internal monitor/security messages, like ossec and opsview, apticron messages, etc. So I was looking to set up an OpenVZ container, probably sid, as a

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread B. Alexander
I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: (...) Now the mail server, since Comcast blocked port 25, is mainly used for internal

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) I think Postfix is the best open source MTA available on Linux hands down. I have used Sendmail, Qmail, and Exim and none of them have given me the flexability and security of Postfix. Not to

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface. It's dated in appearance and the lack of a back end database is what killed it for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread B. Alexander
I don't mind keeping my mail in a flat file rather than a db. I guess if I were doing higher volume stuff, it might make a difference, but most of the emails I deal with are read, deal with and delete. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 26,

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread olafrv
- From: B. Alexander stor...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 To: Debian-user Listdebian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Mail server recommendations Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 26 Out 2010, B. Alexander wrote: * roundcube for webmail You could try IMP, part of the Horde suite for e-mail. It's only slightly less ugly than SquirrelMail, but it is extremely powerful feature-wise. -- Use at own risk. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:18:41 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) Spamassassin is resource (ram/cpu) consuming and provided that you are not going online (no spam) it could be omitted. As an alternative to Roundcube (I

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Michal
I think that any modern, inexpensive system (dual- or quad-core AMD CPUs running around 3GHz, 4GB RAM) would fit the bill. OP didnt say how many users would be using it, but it doesn't sound like many considering his existing box. Postfix with things like clamav, spamassiain, webmail, mysql

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-10-26 14:13, Camaleón wrote: * spamassassin (in case I ever decide to work around the port 25 block) spampd is your friend. * roundcube for webmail As an alternative to Roundcube (I avoid webmail as much as I can) I would take a look into Squirrel. RoundCube is simply great. At

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:14:11 +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2010-10-26 14:13, Camaleón wrote: * spamassassin (in case I ever decide to work around the port 25 block) spampd is your friend. AFAIK, spamd comes within SA. * roundcube for webmail As an alternative to Roundcube (I avoid

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Michal
On 26/10/10 13:21, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, B. Alexanderstor...@gmail.com wrote: I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface. It's dated in appearance and the lack of a back end database is what killed it for me. You can connect

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-10-26 16:42, Camaleón wrote: Users like many things (i.e., Hotmail/Livemail :-P) but and admin has also to care about another things (server requirements, performance, stability and security). adminIt's stable, since years and with many concurrent users. And the support efforts for

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Joe
On 26/10/10 12:10, B. Alexander wrote: Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am running on (2.4 GHz P4, 1GB

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-20 Thread Stefan Bellon
Andy Smith wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:05:04PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:05:04PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Stefan Bellon
Greg Folkert wrote: I've been running this: HP Proliant DL145 G2 http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl145/ Since May 2006, of course I don't have a REALLY fast one. But the machine supports 1 or 2 processors (single or Dual core) and 32GB of memory. It is

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Richard
Am Dienstag, den 16.01.2007, 09:59 +0100 schrieb Stefan Bellon: Greg Folkert wrote: I've been running this: HP Proliant DL145 G2 http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl145/ Since May 2006, of course I don't have a REALLY fast one. But the machine

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:59 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: I've been running this: HP Proliant DL145 G2 http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl145/ Since May 2006, of course I don't have a REALLY fast one. But the machine supports 1

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:14 +0100, Richard wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.01.2007, 09:59 +0100 schrieb Stefan Bellon: Greg Folkert wrote: I've been running this: HP Proliant DL145 G2 http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantdl145/ Since May 2006, of

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:56 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:14 +0100, Richard wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.01.2007, 09:59 +0100 schrieb Stefan Bellon: Greg Folkert wrote: I've been running this: HP Proliant DL145 G2

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:56:51AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 13:14 +0100, Richard wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.01.2007, 09:59 +0100 schrieb Stefan Bellon: Greg Folkert wrote: I've been running

Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Belt
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:05 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that important.

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:05:04PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not the 2.6.18-3 kernel, which, as of yesterday, was still the default kernel for etch. See bug 401006. OKAY, Hendrik. STOP with the nitpicking. This is a bug

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/07 15:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not the 2.6.18-3 kernel, which, as of yesterday, was still the default

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:02:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/07 15:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 10:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But not the

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-16 Thread Kevin Ross
I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that important. Anything people can recommend? Dell PowerEdge 1950 can

Server recommendations?

2007-01-15 Thread Stefan Bellon
I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that important. Anything people can recommend? -- Stefan Bellon -- To

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 23:05 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that important.

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-15 Thread michael
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:05:04 +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that important.

calendar server recommendations?

2004-08-16 Thread Will Trillich
i can see that my partners are soon going to be looking at claendar server features... m$ exchange server is going to be the touchstone -- if some of y'all'uns have experience with some of the calendaring solutions available on debian, i'd love to hear them. we've got some outlook users and some

IRC server recommendations

2004-03-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Hey you people. I want to install an IRC server in my machine, a private one, the administration must be able to add and remove user accounts, these account with passwds. You can't get into the network unless invated, etc. is this possible? If so, which is the best out there? I did [EMAIL

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are users on

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:12:09PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote.. On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Try the free cygwin download: http://www..cygwin.com/ Kevin Coyner wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:12:09PM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote.. On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 22:09, Jack Pistachio wrote: I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows,

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-16 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 02:59:35PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: What's a good, and hopefully open source free, program that can act as a SSH server on a Windows box? I do most of my work in Linux/Debian, but there's one offsite webserver I have to take care of that's Win2K. Presently I ftp

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-15 Thread Jack Pistachio
I'd suggest ssh, sftp, and scp, which all come in the debian ssh package. To use these with windows, I'd suggest putty sftp client for windows. This seems th easiest way to do it. This, of course, requires that your friends are users on your system. -jackp --- ScruLoose [EMAIL PROTECTED]

file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job. * I'll only be talking about a very few users. (like 10 to 20 total) * I don't have any particular

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* ScruLoose [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030314 23:09 PST]: Hi all, I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job. * I'll only be talking about a very few

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread nate
ScruLoose said: Hi all, I'm interested in making a few files available to friends of mine, and in having an upload directory for them to give me stuff, too. I'm wondering what's the best tool for this job. The first thing that comes to mind is FTP, but I'm not sure it's the right

Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Dan Hunt
I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with 32 MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be equipped with Debian Woody, on a static DSL IP address without any firewall. Will this meager

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Dan Hunt said: I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with 32 MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be equipped with Debian Woody, on a static DSL IP address without any firewall.

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dan On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Dan Hunt wrote: I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with 32 MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be equipped with Debian Woody, on a static

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread nate
nate said: I'm sure people will disagree but I strongly do not reccomend running a system, even a minimal one with less then 64MB of ram. If your using zope you probably want something more powerful. My experience with zope is limited to Zwiki, but I have noticed that it takes 100 to 200 or

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Dan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 08:58 PM -0600): I am ready to set up my own Web Server rather than paying my friends each month. Your IT guidance would be appreciated. I have a dusty Pentium 90 with 32 MB Ram, and a 1 GB Drive. The new unit will be

Re: Server Recommendations

2002-12-18 Thread John Griffiths
If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM -- my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is still fairly easily

Re: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-05 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eugene van Zyl wrote: Hi, Any recommendations for a IMAP server (on Debian 2.2)? IMAP4.7c (I think this is UW IMAP?) On Solaris, I've had a great amount of success with the Courier-IMAP suite. Courier-IMAP only uses Maildirs, which is a newer mailbox storage format that

IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-04 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Hi, Any recommendations for a IMAP server (on Debian 2.2)? IMAP4.7c (I think this is UW IMAP?) seems to intergrates relatively painless and support most IMAP features (although I couldn't find anything on shared folders), courier-imap seems technically better(?) but confusing to set up

Re: GLUG: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-04 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Wed 2001-04-04 (10:41), Eugene van Zyl wrote: Hi, Any recommendations for a IMAP server (on Debian 2.2)? IMAP4.7c (I think this is UW IMAP?) seems to intergrates relatively painless and support most IMAP features (although I couldn't find anything on shared folders), courier-imap seems

RE: GLUG: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-04 Thread Eugene van Zyl
Thanks, I'll courier looks like it then :-) With exim I saw the debian docs for courier indicate that I set Exim up for maildir delivery - will the POP3 server pick the mail up correctly from the maildir then? also will the pop client (if not set to leave a copy on the server) kill the mail

Re: GLUG: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-04 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Wed 2001-04-04 (15:59), Eugene van Zyl wrote: Thanks, I'll courier looks like it then :-) With exim I saw the debian docs for courier indicate that I set Exim up for maildir delivery - will the POP3 server pick the mail up correctly from the maildir then? also will the pop client (if

Re: IMAP server recommendations ?

2001-04-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Disclaimer: I'm the UW imapd maintainer so I'm biased. :-) On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Eugene van Zyl wrote: Hi, Any recommendations for a IMAP server (on Debian 2.2)? IMAP4.7c (I think this is UW IMAP?) Yes. seems to intergrates relatively painless and support most IMAP features (although I