I have done this exact thing with Mandrake 9.1. I use OpenWebMail (www.openwebmail.org) and LOVE it as a web interface. I currently let the client to the sorting, but I intend to learn procmail eventually and let it do the sorting. I use mostly the stuff that comes with Mandrake 9.1, but I upgraded SA to the latest version.
I you run into any specific issues, I'd be happy to help. Michael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Carnes Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:43 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Yet another mail question On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 11:07, Justin Johnson wrote: > I am about to set up my own mail server to consolidate and hopefully > ease my current email pains. I currently have 2 accounts that I check > daily from 2 different machines(home and work) via POP. At work I have > th option turned on in Outlook to not delete messages off the server, so > all messages get delivered to my home machine, even the ones I've read > and deleted at work. It sucks, I know. > > So I've been thinking to myself, "Hey use linux to make your life > easier!". And then I answered "Hey, good idea, although long overdue! > We're getting slow in our old age,apparently". > > So here is the plan. And here is where we are looking for confirmation > that we have all the parts that we need to figure out to get our mail > 'situation' under control, along with the role we understand them to > play. > > Fetchmail - Fetch my mail from my 2 accounts and deliver to local mail > server > > Postfix - This would be the local mail server, just has to be there, eh? > > SpamAssassin - Killl all those stupid a#* messages that I am currently > spending too much of my life deleting manually. > > ProcMail - Sort my two mail accounts into two different folders to keep > them separate and all organized, etc. (Do I need this to organize?) > > Cyrus IMAP - No more POP clients!. Use IMAP to connect to mail server so > that whn I delete an email, it is gone. For good. And I have consistent > mail wherever I check it from! > > While I am at it, set up a webmail interface? Suggestions? > > So do I have a well laid out path, or am I a lost puppy? > > Thanks! Hmmm, I would replace the Cyrus IMAP with the simpler UW-IMAP that comes with most distributions. It does a fine job of basic IMAP and POP. If you do go with Cyrus, I think you'll have to use it's LDA instead of Procmail - but I'm told it is full featured and can do the job. For web-based mail, try Squirrelmail. Works great with UW-IMAP and is very simple to setup. If you're really looking for a neat project, then you might want to add Clam Anti-virus to the mix, and let MailScanner handle running the Anti-virus and Spam filters. <MailScanner is great!> Good Luck - Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
