Subject: Re: Mail Server - long suggestion
From: Blake Girardot (girardot@mac.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 01:46:37 MST
its not yellow dog specific, but i just got done doing this a few times a
few different ways on a yellow dog like system, RH 7.2:
option 1 - most difficult, but what i liked the most when done:
rip out sendmail first off.
install qmail in its place, using maildirs, not mboxes
use vmailmgr to create virtual domains with qmail (that always comes up
next).
use omail manage the vmailmgr users and virtual domains.
courier-imap and courier-pop3d servers for client access
squirrelmail for the user's webmail front end.
doing it all securely makes it about 1.5 times harder.
option 2 - only slightly lower requirements (can all be done easy with rc
scripts and xinetd) and works ok:
rip out sendmail first off
install qmail in its place, using maildirs, not mboxes :)
use vpopmail to create/physically manager the virtual domains with qmail
use vqadmin to manage the vpopmail virtual domains via the web
use qmailadmin to manage the users and user alias/mailing lists via the web
courier imap and pop3d for traditional client access
use squirrel mail for web access to mailboxes
here's some urls:
the inter7.com folks have lots of good explinations of how all the small
pieces fit togeather.
http://www.postfix.com/start.html - MTA - good and secure but not as
supported by other tools listed below as qmail.
http://qmail.mirrors.summersault.com/top.html - MTA
http://www.vmailmgr.org/ - Virtual domain admin for qmail only
http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ - Virtual domain admin for qmail or postfix
http://vmailadmin.sourceforge.net/ - Allows client to admin virtual mail
domain qmail + vpopmail, great and easy done.
http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ - manage qmail, sendmail, vpopmail boxes, and
many other services.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/ - Vmailmgr Admin plugin [4] with the Courier
IMAP server (CourierIMAP) and qmail (QmailSMTP) with Vmailmgr as your MTA.
http://webmail.omnis.ch/omail.pl?action=about - Web based email and virtual
domain management for qmail + vpopmail or vmailmgr, but mostly vmailmgr i
think.
http://www.dulug.duke.edu/~icon/qvcs-guide/ - a good step by step of putting
several parts togeather.
http://www.nrg4u.com/ - qmail big picture and qmail ldap patch
http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ - the bible for qmail
if you get it all going togeather you get a very nice virtual domain email
pop/imap/webmail toaster i think they call it.
forgive me if i have some of it wrong its late here, but i wanted to get a
stab at it while it was still quasi-fresh in my head.
hope it helps.
blake
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Blake Girardot, Installation and Training
blake at contextcraft com
Context Craft LLC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Mayton" <bmayton@mac.com>
To: "yellowdog general lists.yellowdoglinux.com"
<yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: Mail Server
> Okay, I finally got sendmail to work. What do you recommend I use as an
> imap/pop server and do you have any suggestions for a webmail program?
>
> On 1/12/02 10:38 PM, "Mark Jaffe" <wizards@wizdev.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Brian Mayton wrote:
> >
> >> I need help getting my YDL box to be an email server. I've asked this
> >> before, but every time I've attempted to do so, I've failed. Can
anyone
> >> point me to detailed instructions on how to do this? I'd like
something
> >> that will work with PINE locally, POP3, and IMAP.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >
> > sendmail is the daemon that you need to study. It comes installed by
> > default. But for it to work properly you need a hostname on a domain;
> > setting it up on a machine without a static IP is not correct.
> >
>
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