On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:55 +0000, Alan Pope wrote: <snip> > 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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