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Date:      Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:48:29 +1100
From:      "Corey Ralph" <corey.ralph@datafast.net.au>
To:        "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mail Server with LDAP?
Message-ID:  <20010216094829.B28246@corey.datafast.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B10459979@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>; from hhudson@eschelon.com on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:30:21AM -0600
References:  <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B10459979@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>

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Hi.

We are running a qmail based system with vmailmgr, for about 20k
mailboxes at about 300 domains.  I am very happy with it, it is rock
solid and fast.

It doesn't exactly fit your description, but may be worth a look anyway.

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:30:21AM -0600, Hudson, Henrik H. wrote:
> Hello List-
> 
> So, I want to get a mail server running that will do user auth via a LDAP
> server which will allow me get around the problem of A)Creating local user
> accounts and B) having the user at one domain not be able to have the same
> name as a user at another domain. or would a MySQL server work better?
> safer? easier?

vmailmgr works by one system user controlling each domain, and
individual password databases in each.

The users can log in with their full email address or as
domainuser-mailbox.  It also supports ip based virtual domains, so they
can log in with just the mailbox name.

> The POP server to handle this? QPopper works via a PAM module and LDAP, I
> think? What else?

qmail-pop3d.  It has an external program called checkpassword which you
can replace to give different functionality.  vmailmgr comes with its
own.

> Then we need a SMTP server to handle deliveries. Will sendmail do this?
> NOTE: Please don't get into a security argument on this one :)

qmail-smtpd.

> Need an IMAP server too.

Courier IMAP

> Point me to a website with docs, etc... and I will be happy to read it :) I
> was paging through the openldap.org site. Looks promising...

www.qmail.org
www.vmailmgr.org

> The ultimate goal is to do the above, have a webmail interface to it all and

We use squirrelmail, it rocks.  It is written in php so it is fairly
easy to make modifications.  www.squirrelmail.org

> not have local user accounts. Should I say screw it and go buy something
> like Communigate Pro? or tinker with it? I was looking at Critical Path
> stuff, but Solaris or Windoze only.
>
> Enlighten me people :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Henrik
> ---
> Henrik Hudson
> 
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