From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 29 20:25:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173F7106567A for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 20:25:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59D88FC65 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 20:25:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 110637E837; Fri, 29 May 2009 12:25:56 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 22:25:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.3; i386; ; ) References: <1F9F36FCD9644D4683DADAF7DD62B412@john> <200905272209.28550.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DE8DE@w2003s01.double-l.local> In-Reply-To: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DE8DE@w2003s01.double-l.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200905292225.41654.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Johan Hendriks Subject: Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:25:59 -0000 On Friday 29 May 2009 09:21:36 Johan Hendriks wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> > Hello all , I want to install a Mail Server with Webmail, > >> > > >> > Anybody to know a good Stable Mail Server and Web Mail > >> > >> I recommend the following step-by-step instructions: > >> http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4 > > > >It's a detailed how-to but consider the following: > >a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever > >possible. > >b) Spam Assassin is a resource hog, use mail/dspam. > >c) While postfix-admin is ok for one box setup, it doesn't scale at all - > >you'll have to install it for every physical machine to manage that > > specific database for that box. I know of no alternatives, hence I'm > > rolling my own. > > > >-- > >Mel > > Option c and do not understand. > > You can use a centralized database and let as many postfix, dovecot servers > talk to that database as you want, or am i seeing this wrong. Sure. And they will accept mail for everything in the database, you will have no good routing as any given setting applies to any given postfix installation, unless you maintain internal DNS and transport maps locally and very carefully. So my own database has a 'servers' table and transport / relay are applied per server. This way an incoming mailhub accepting for all domains can get transport info from the same database and multiple transport maps can be applied for the same domain, pending the role of the server in the mail network that requests the info. Postfix (and dovecot) maps simply have a WHERE me='mailhub.example.com' clause. -- Mel