Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please
Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through setting up a mail server with the following items on it. SpamAssassin Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) Squirrelmail (for webmail) Apache (for squirrelmail) Dovecot Imap (for squirrelmail) Postfix Admin - this is the reason for the need to have a mysql driven mail user database. It's apparently required for this to work. Plus database driven user management tends to be easier. Of course, if you know of a better way to graphically admin mail users without using a database, I'm all ears. :) And lastly, some kind of web based server admin page that's similar to webmin, but more secure. I want to setup a mail server with all these elements, have postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot be database driven and somehow create a mailbox tree for the webmail users for saved, spam, sent and trashcan folders. Also, lastly, which format for mail is better? Maildir or Mbox? I'm partial to Mbox, but I've heard some others say Maildir is better. The server is only going to host about 30-40 users for a realty company, so security is priority, plus it needs to have ease of administration because the guy who's going to admin this in the end (I'm just building it, he's maintaining it) isn't unix savy. I've already done a lot of google diving, but with little luck. Hence why I'm asking here. If someone knows of a good guide or series of guides that'll help me through all this, it'd be greatly appreciated. I'm used to doing this the hard way with sendmail and the regular freebsd users through the console. So I'm really new to postfix, but I'm using it because it's supposedly more secure. I'd have the guy who's admining it do the same, but he's too green in the console to risk it. ;) Many thanks in advance for any help you can provide. :) Steven Lake Owner/Technical Writer Raiden's Realm www.raiden.net A friendly web community Steve, Youve asked at lot of questions in one here. For 30 to 40 users what you are proposing is way over the top, I would stay away from mysql etc. I am using qmail + courier(pop3 imap) + calamav + squirrelmail etc base on the installation from http://www.qmailrocks.org/ with some tweeks from Bill Olson's site http://www.goodcleanemail.com/ for spamassassin rules and learning etc. Bill's site is useful as he uses FreeBsd. I also used the Chkuser patch (rejecting mails during smtp for non existing users) from John Simpson's site http://www.jms1.net/ + block lists. The setup uses web based qmailadmin for managing mail boxes. It has been running for nearly 2 years now and the only maintanence has been updating clamav and tweeking the spamassassin rules. BTW qmailrocks has an updated script for a freebsd installation using most of the latest sw from ports. Although this is Beta3 it works - just used it for a small business, there is also an active mailing list where Bill and John are posting. Hope this helps and guys please no postfix is better etc. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please
Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through setting up a mail server with the following items on it. SpamAssassin Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) Squirrelmail (for webmail) Apache (for squirrelmail) Dovecot Imap (for squirrelmail) Postfix Admin - this is the reason for the need to have a mysql driven mail user database. It's apparently required for this to work. Plus database driven user management tends to be easier. Of course, if you know of a better way to graphically admin mail users without using a database, I'm all ears. :) And lastly, some kind of web based server admin page that's similar to webmin, but more secure. Here is a guide for Gentoo Linux that addresses most, if not all of your requirements: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please
This might be overkill, but take a look at these things. i'm sure that you can find what you need there: http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster.shtml http://www.screamingelectron.org/forum/printthread.php?t=725 On 8/18/06, Helge Preuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through setting up a mail server with the following items on it. SpamAssassin Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) Squirrelmail (for webmail) Apache (for squirrelmail) Dovecot Imap (for squirrelmail) Postfix Admin - this is the reason for the need to have a mysql driven mail user database. It's apparently required for this to work. Plus database driven user management tends to be easier. Of course, if you know of a better way to graphically admin mail users without using a database, I'm all ears. :) And lastly, some kind of web based server admin page that's similar to webmin, but more secure. Here is a guide for Gentoo Linux that addresses most, if not all of your requirements: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best Regards, Ivan Levchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please
On Friday 18 August 2006 05:59, Helge Preuss wrote: Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through setting up a mail server with the following items on it. SpamAssassin Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) Squirrelmail (for webmail) Apache (for squirrelmail) Dovecot Imap (for squirrelmail) Postfix Admin - this is the reason for the need to have a mysql driven mail user database. It's apparently required for this to work. Plus database driven user management tends to be easier. Of course, if you know of a better way to graphically admin mail users without using a database, I'm all ears. :) And lastly, some kind of web based server admin page that's similar to webmin, but more secure. Here is a guide for Gentoo Linux that addresses most, if not all of your requirements: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I dont think what you propose is over the top at all. I have all these elements running now. Using (http://www.postfix.org/docs.html), you can pretty much get everything running from there. In addition to the programs you already stated I would recommend using amavisd-new (http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd). With that you get SpamAssassin and Primary/Secondary antivirus protection. Also, make sure you use TLS to secure your webmail traffic. If you have any questions let me know. Really, it is quite easy to get this stuff and running. I never used webmin, but apache maintenace should be minimal. r/ Derrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please
On 8/18/06, Steve Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through setting up a mail server with the following items on it. SpamAssassin Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) Squirrelmail (for webmail) Apache (for squirrelmail) Dovecot Imap (for squirrelmail) Postfix Admin - this is the reason for the need to have a mysql driven mail user database. It's apparently required for this to work. Plus database driven user management tends to be easier. Of course, if you know of a better way to graphically admin mail users without using a database, I'm all ears. :) And lastly, some kind of web based server admin page that's similar to webmin, but more secure. I want to setup a mail server with all these elements, have postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot be database driven and somehow create a mailbox tree for the webmail users for saved, spam, sent and trashcan folders. Also, lastly, which format for mail is better? Maildir or Mbox? I'm partial to Mbox, but I've heard some others say Maildir is better. The server is only going to host about 30-40 users for a realty company, so security is priority, plus it needs to have ease of administration because the guy who's going to admin this in the end (I'm just building it, he's maintaining it) isn't unix savy. I've already done a lot of google diving, but with little luck. Hence why I'm asking here. If someone knows of a good guide or series of guides that'll help me through all this, it'd be greatly appreciated. I'm used to doing this the hard way with sendmail and the regular freebsd users through the console. So I'm really new to postfix, but I'm using it because it's supposedly more secure. I'd have the guy who's admining it do the same, but he's too green in the console to risk it. ;) try using google, it will point you to the tutorial's url but since you already posted that question here, the postfix website has lots of howto in setting up a mailserver, i for one used the howto's in postfix' website. but if your too lazy to google :D this url's might help: http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/server/install_fbsd/ http://www.astro.ufl.edu/it/install/freebsd.html here a suggestion, instead of using squirrelmail try using roundcube, we use it here in our office. roundcube's ajax like interface's absolutely awesome compared to squirrelmail bland interface, you can install it via subversion. dovecot is a good choice for imap and pop3 service. postfix can support both mbox and maildir but i prefer maildir. you can secure your box by chrooting postfix or putting it behind a firewall. there are so many ways to make it fully secure, those i mentioned are just a few of them. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
