On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:55 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
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> Anyway, I was thinking of making it a little "home office" server with
> a few roles (listed below). It's for play initially, imagine an office
> of 5 people or so, doing typical file etc sharing, but as it's in the
> home, maybe chuck a couple of fun things on there too.
> 
> I have some idea what I'd use, but wonder what selections people would
> make, and maybe what additional things you'd do with such a box? I
> don't want to get into religious debates about which mail server is
> best, just what you'd choose and maybe why.
> 
> I'm thinking of probably doing a very basic Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS
> install and trying to use packages from the repositories, but happy to
> use 3rd party repos, or PPAs, compiling from source is not an
> attractive proposition to me :)
> 
> Mailserver:- Postfix
Do you intend to do IMAP or POP3?  If so, I prefer Dovecot over cyrus,
but that's a personal quirk.
> Webmail:- Roundcube webmail
I like the look of Roundcube, but Squirrelmail has GPG support and RC
still doesn't (as of last time I looked), so (depending whether you
think emails should be signed by default) you might want Squirrel.
> File sharing:- SAMBA (with some config fu)
> Webcam monitor:- Webcam (part of xawtv)
> Media server (music/photo/video):- ???
Mediatomb appears to have a pretty good reputation
> VOIP server:- ???
> 
> What am I missing / what would you do?
Stick nethack on it, just because you can?
Also, if you've got several Ubuntu machines in the house, set it up as a
caching apt proxy and save yourself some downloads.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 

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