From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 16:05:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E63A16A407 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:05:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (114-103-74-65.gci.net [65.74.103.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AB143CBF for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:04:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stargate.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695114596; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:36:48 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul Organization: Alaska Paradise Travel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:36:28 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <45891D18.8010205@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45891D18.8010205@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1598978.zBcFpucthY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200612200636.46067.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Robin Becker Subject: Re: small mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@alaskaparadise.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:05:32 -0000 --nextPart1598978.zBcFpucthY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:23, Robin Becker wrote: > I'm looking for some advice on using one of our existing freebsd 6.x > servers as a mail server for a small number (<20) of users. > > Our existing provider gives us > > 1) pop3/IMAP for reading mail > 2) SMTP for sending, but we need to read mail before using smtp; I guess > this implies we don't need to authenticate directly. > 3) web based interface for adding users and redirections etc etc > 4) spam filtering (presumably based on their large user mail volume). > 5) white/grey listing I would suggest postfix, spamassassin/procmail set server wide and the=20 pop/imap server of your choice. Both postfix and spamassassin have detailed= =20 how-to's on their sites. IMHO postfix is much easier to configure than=20 sendmail, but then I haven't used sendmail in years. Make sure you use the= =20 spamassassin binary (spamd) or it can get very slow. Spamassassin has=20 whitelist/greylist, blacklist and RBH available. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1598978.zBcFpucthY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFiViNR5sEeCt9j00RAjiyAJ9dDIlepOXTS5IFi9nzkKjYZBbOKgCgky07 mg6W0VXjddOv4VSMboU5ybk= =aacw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1598978.zBcFpucthY--