Re: An easy virtual pop solution not involving qmail?
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:15:30AM +0100, Chris Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently writing a proposal to replace our crapped out Redhat 9 web > server with FreeBSD 5-STABLE when it appears. In the process, I need to do > something with the mail server running on it. It's currently sendmail with > virtual domains and one user account per mailbox etc. Its performance is > piss poor and the users are complaining (there are 500 of the buggers and > they poll it all day and night). > > Is there an easier to manage solution that DOESN'T involve qmail where I > don't need to give users REAL accounts? I've seen several qmail-centric > documents floating around on the web but nothing concise and > straightforward. > > BTW - I'm not getting into a mail server religious war so don't even go > there ;-) > > Many Thanks, > > - Chris. Dovecot is an excellent and MTA-independant POP/IMAP-server, supporting virtual domains, virtual users, and various authentication mechanisms. Checkout ports/mail/dovecot or http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/ GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: An easy virtual pop solution not involving qmail?
"Chris Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently writing a proposal to replace our crapped out Redhat 9 web > server with FreeBSD 5-STABLE when it appears. In the process, I need to do > something with the mail server running on it. It's currently sendmail with > virtual domains and one user account per mailbox etc. Its performance is > piss poor and the users are complaining (there are 500 of the buggers and > they poll it all day and night). > > Is there an easier to manage solution that DOESN'T involve qmail where I > don't need to give users REAL accounts? I've seen several qmail-centric > documents floating around on the web but nothing concise and > straightforward. Postfix + Cyrus + LDAP. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: An easy virtual pop solution not involving qmail?
On Saturday 19 June 2004 06:15 pm, Chris Smith wrote: > Is there an easier to manage solution that DOESN'T involve qmail where I > don't need to give users REAL accounts? I'm using Cyrus IMAP (and POP) on my FreeBSD server. There is no direct correlation between Cyrus accounts and system accounts, unless you go out of your way to make it so. Authentication can be against a private database, Kerberos, an LDAP server, or anything else you can bind Cyrus SASL to. Also, while I'd previously used Sendmail as the MTA, I recently switched to Postfix without changing a single bit of the backend configuration. I mention this because it was important to me that I not be tied to a particular MTA. Hope this helps! -- Kirk Strauser pgpewqMx2Licy.pgp Description: signature
