Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:54:27 +0100 From: Leander Damme <mail@leander-damme.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: All-in-one Server Message-ID: <E9D56FBF-4AF0-41C0-8EE8-8CD05C9CD954@leander-damme.com> In-Reply-To: <4B72CFD1.90208@black-earth.co.uk> References: <991123401002100558s4c92e4efl21ca3bb54cbabcda@mail.gmail.com> <4B72CFD1.90208@black-earth.co.uk>
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> On 10/02/2010 13:58, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> Hello sysadmins, >>=20 >> Happy New Year (2010)! >>=20 >> Anyone knows if I can build a FreeBSD box that has: >>=20 >> Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server Solution with >> the following capabilities: >> . http, pop, smtp, and imap email access. >> . Global Address List facility >> . Personal Address List facility >> . Personal and Group Scheduling through a calendar facility >> . System Dashboards to allow monitoring of the Managed >> Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server. >> . Ability for users to use the same password as that in windows >> Active Directory is desired. >> . Connector for Microsoft Outlook (Desirable) >=20 > Horde or SquirrelMail + appropriate addons > Cyrus IMAPd or Dovecot > Sendmail or Postfix or Exim or .... Postfix(with mysql support) & Dovecot work fine for me Postfixadmin can be used as a config panel (ugly php - but works more or = less) http://sourceforge.net/projects/postfixadmin/ > You should be able to use SASL to hook up any of these to AD for > authentication purposes. (If you choose sendmail, you'ld want the > version from ports so you can compile it with all the SASL bits.) >=20 > Horde certainly will allow you to create Global and Personal address > books via various different back-end databases. In principle it can > use LDAP so you might be able to bodge it into AD, but I'd recommend > MySQL as the least grief, fastest benefit solution. >=20 you could try egroupware as an alternative to horde http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/ I think it supports syncml to integrate with Outlook and mobile devices. > Horde also provides shared and global calendars, accessilble via > CalDAV. I have tried the Darwin calendar and contact Server with FreeBSD = recently - but would not recommend it in a productive enviroment > No idea what to recommend as a control panel for the firewall, MTA and > imap servers I'm afraid. >=20 > Note that Outlook is designed to work with MS Exchange, and often = gives > less than optimal results with other mail servers.
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