Thanks to everyone for your responses. I have decided to go with postfix/squirrelmail for this solution. I have configured squirrelmail's plugins with everything except for the address book groups. I see where there is a mysql solution for address book groups but it mentions a flat file option. Trouble is I can't figure out how to set up the flat files. I prefer the address book, groups, calendar, bookmarks, mail, etc... to all be store locally in the /home/user directory. This makes it much easier for me to remove accounts or restore them. Has anyone ever configured squirrelmail for address book groups that are stored locally? Thanks!
On 5/10/06, Douglas Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been tasked to set up a new e-mail server that will manage about 1000 mailboxes and have decided to use postfix. We can't afford to purchase 1000 additional Exchange licenses. I am interested in anyone's experiences in the following areas: 1) I intend to set up the users (regular system accounts) on the server and store their mailboxes in the /home/username directory. I can easily back up the mailbox using rsync. How can I back up the user accounts in case the server were to ever fail? I don't think that backing up /etc/passwd will catch the passwords. 2) I am eying squirrelmail as the webmail application. With the use of lots of plug-ins I can get close to the Exchange server that I am replacing. Does anyone know of any other webmail applications that come closer to Outlook Web Access out of the box? I am specifically thinking about auto forwarding, out of office assistant, calendar, address book groups, contact imports, etc... I would appreciate any help that can be offered. Thanks!
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