Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:58:05 +0800 From: "jan gestre" <freebsd.ph@gmail.com> To: "Steve Lake" <steve.lake@raiden.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Needing a guide/tutorial please Message-ID: <a25afc300608172158q2932c192wa99498f3ab6e7063@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20060818003418.00be4ad0@192.168.0.30> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20060818003418.00be4ad0@192.168.0.30>
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On 8/18/06, Steve Lake <steve.lake@raiden.net> wrote: > > Looking for a guide online somewhere that will walk me through > setting up a mail server with the following items on it. > > SpamAssassin > Postfix (pop3 and smtp setup) > MySQL (for database driven mail user administration) > MyPHPAdmin (to visually admin the database) > Squirrelmail (for webmail) > Apache (for squirrelmail) > Dovecot Imap (for squirrelmail) > Postfix Admin <- this is the reason for the need to have a mysql driven > mail user database. It's apparently required for this to work. Plus > database driven user management tends to be easier. Of course, if you > know > of a better way to graphically admin mail users without using a database, > I'm all ears. :) > And lastly, some kind of web based server admin page that's similar to > webmin, but more secure. > > I want to setup a mail server with all these elements, have > postfix, squirrelmail and dovecot be database driven and somehow create a > mailbox tree for the webmail users for saved, spam, sent and trashcan > folders. Also, lastly, which format for mail is better? Maildir or > Mbox? I'm partial to Mbox, but I've heard some others say Maildir is > better. The server is only going to host about 30-40 users for a realty > company, so security is priority, plus it needs to have ease of > administration because the guy who's going to admin this in the end (I'm > just building it, he's maintaining it) isn't unix savy. I've already done > a lot of google diving, but with little luck. Hence why I'm asking > here. If someone knows of a good guide or series of guides that'll help > me > through all this, it'd be greatly appreciated. I'm used to doing this the > hard way with sendmail and the regular freebsd users through the > console. So I'm really new to postfix, but I'm using it because it's > supposedly more secure. I'd have the guy who's admining it do the same, > but he's too green in the console to risk it. ;) > > try using google, it will point you to the tutorial's url but since you > already posted that question here, the postfix website has lots of howto in > setting up a mailserver, i for one used the howto's in postfix' website. but > if your too lazy to google :D this url's might help: > http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/server/install_fbsd/ http://www.astro.ufl.edu/it/install/freebsd.html here a suggestion, instead of using squirrelmail try using roundcube, we use > it here in our office. roundcube's ajax like interface's absolutely awesome > compared to squirrelmail bland interface, you can install it via subversion. > dovecot is a good choice for imap and pop3 service. postfix can support both > mbox and maildir but i prefer maildir. you can secure your box by chrooting > postfix or putting it behind a firewall. there are so many ways to make it > fully secure, those i mentioned are just a few of them. HTH
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