[MLUG] Mail Server help and recomendations.

[Peter Silva]

maybe less work... with Zimbra all the s/w is pre-integrated... not in the
repos, but it is open source, and there are debian & ubuntu packages...
http://www.zimbra.com/community/downloads.html

I have a buddy who built a vm to run zimbra, and that's it (moves the vm
around, when the hardware needs to change.) been a couple of years now.


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:30 PM, David Montminy <david.montminy at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Arron Svendsen wrote:
> > I have been running a small mail/www/other server for many many years now
> > (arron.ca).  I want to convert it from Debian to Mint now, since I have
> > become so used to all the nicenesses in Mint.  It has been over 6 years
> > since I have setup a small server like this (all hail Debian) and im not
> > looking for a little input.
> >
> > I have used squirrelmail over the years and have been quite happy with
> it.
> >  For it to run I need imap, maildir amongst the normal pop3 and smtp for
> > email.  As well this time I would like to use virtual mail users this
> > time, and no login for them, I could really use some help on this part
> > too.
> >
> > Could I get some input on some easy to install (in the repo's), very easy
> > to setup / maintain and lightweight on resources apps to accomplish this?
> >
> > As well I will be setting up spamassassin with any good add ons for it,
> > some input on what addons would be great too.
> >
> > I know, im looking for a lot of ideas on this, mail servers is defiantly
> > not my area of specialties.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Arron
> >
> >
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> I re-did my own server (as well as several VMs) a couple of weeks ago.
> (It's practice for several Certs)
>
> Based on several sources, I went with this list of apps:
> - -rcs
> - -monit
> - -postfix
> - -apache2
> - -dovecot
> - -ssh
> - -postgrey
> - -samba
> - -cupsys
> - -bash
> - -screen
> - -spamassassin
> - -ntp
> - -squirrelmail (not installed yet)
>
> If you want to have virtual users, you will probably have to configure
> postfix with sasldb, LDAP, Kerberos or SQL support.
>
> I like to run Monit because it's small, lightweight and it emails any
> changes to the monitored daemons.
>
> Another small advice: it doesn't hurt to run a VM and test your settings
> in there first. I also like to have RCS or CVS for config files,
> especially if more than 1 admin touches the same server.
>
>
> Ho, and don't twitter your ssh password, like I did by accident... :)
>
> Happy holidays!
>
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