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bone Apprentice
Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 255 Location: Midwest, USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 4:21 pm Post subject: E-Mail Package Advise |
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Ok. The deal is, I am in need of some recommendations on a quality e-mail setup for my gentoo server. Originally, I used qmail, vpopmail, and the likes. I do not seem to see a vpopmail on the portage list, but the vmailmgr portage has been recommended to me. I also see qmail (seems to me to be the base package), qmail-sumo (I dont know what this is, sounds like a huge chinesse wrestler), qmail-pop3d (I assumed this to be a standard qmail package) and a few others. Whats the "TRICK" setup here. WHich packages do I install. I checked the --pretend on just the qmail portage, and it said nothing about qmail-sumo, and when checking the qmail-sumo --pretend, it showed a few other packages and one or two lessfrom the qmail's list. HELP.
The Bottom Line: I want a qmail package that will allow infinate virtual hosts and unlimited virtual pop/imap accts. I would also like webmail, and if possible, a pop-before-auth or smtp-auth system and a virus filtering system for this e-mail package. |
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alec Apprentice
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Squirrelmail is a good web-based e-mail package that you can emerge. You'll need PHP. I have it working with Courier-IMAP.
I'm running postfix, and it looks like it has all the options you're looking for - lots of virtual hosts.
I belive there are virus-scanning plugings for exim.
Well, now that I've thrown out the standard (contradictory) options, have fun! |
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swales n00b
Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 13
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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Sumo wrestling is a Japanese sport, not a Chinesse [sic] sport.
Try using emerge search pkgname, it will give you a "description", this tells you all about the package.. for instance emerge search qmail-sumo yields "Description: Qmail - merge this package to merge all qmail packages"
There are also recent threads about email in the networking forum.
I'm happily using postfix/courier-imap. |
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rphillips Retired Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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I love how linux does email
I have postfix, IMAP SSL, fetchmail, procmail, squirrel mail over SSL apache and spamassassin setup. With this configuration I can use any IMAP enabled email client at school, at work, and, of course, at home to get all my email... Setup fetchmail as a cron, and you never have to check your email again; everything is downloaded automatically when the cron is executed. When I don't have a mail client handy, I can just browse to my box over SSL and use squirrel mail to access my account. All this functionality for *free*.... simply amazing. |
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jtanner Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 121 Location: Atlanta, GA
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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I'm using qmail and imap-uw on an openbsd box to do the same thing. At the time, there were issues between courier-imap and mozilla mail client. I'd give courier-imap another look (and if you're lazy, maybe try the whole courier suite--pop, imap,smtp).
I've also heard good things about cyrus imap, but no ebuild yet...
Jim |
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leej Apprentice
Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 280
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Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Ok. The deal is, I am in need of some recommendations on a quality e-mail setup for my gentoo server. |
Postfix
Procmail
Fetchmail
Mutt
All four working together = perfection (although ahem, anyone made a Sendmail ebuild yet?). |
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lamer n00b
Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 16 Location: St. Paul, Mn
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Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 12:07 am Post subject: Mail Stuff |
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Exim, Courrier, Squirrelmail
Our exim build supports SMTP-AUTH-TLS out of the box. |
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teejot n00b
Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 34
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: Mail Stuff |
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[quote="lamer"]Exim, Courrier, Squirrelmail
Our exim build supports SMTP-AUTH-TLS out of the box.[/quote]
and amavis for virus scanning and mailfilter for mailfiltering ... |
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mellofone Apprentice
Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287
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Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2002 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: Mail Stuff |
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lamer wrote: | Exim, Courrier, Squirrelmail
Our exim build supports SMTP-AUTH-TLS out of the box. |
Seconded. I have 6 heavily used boxes running the above (one currently is a test gentoo box) and it works great, even on older/slower hardware. |
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aprodigy n00b
Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 10:44 pm Post subject: quality e-mail setup |
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Quality? Here you go, but I bet that some of those packages are not <ebuild> yet:
- Cyrus IMAP 2.x (no ebuild - know that!)
- Postfix (there's an ebuild)
- Apache / PHP (I bet there is)
- Horde / IMP Webmail (truly the best webmail-solution around)
- pop-before-smtp (works great with postfix and is easy to maintain)
- vacation / procmail (for autoresponding and filtering)
- amavis (for mail virus scanning)
And the overkill is to store all mail relevant information in some kind of database, like mysql or so.
Replex is part of a project that tries to solve it -> freshmeat.net .
But it's german I believe...
hAvE phUn! |
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mgirard n00b
Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 64
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 6:11 pm Post subject: Email Advise |
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I am using Qmail / Qmail-scanner / Spam-assassin / Courier-imap. All authentication is done against our LDAP database; no user accounts on the machine at all (it is a mail server, not a bloody user playground).
We are using Horde / Imp / Turba for our webmail / addressbook needs backended by a mysql database. SSL connections ONLY.
I am currently working on making gentoo <ebuilds> for Horde, Imp and Turba. I hope to make these available soon (August).
Cheers,
Matt Girard |
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sfachihome n00b
Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 6:58 pm Post subject: Re: Email Advise |
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Hy, I'am trying to install HORDE / IMP but I can't get it...
I use postfix / courier-imap / php / mysql
cu. ml |
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Konfuzius n00b
Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 58 Location: Schwarzenbek
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Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 8:09 am Post subject: Re: Email Advise |
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mgirard wrote: |
I am currently working on making gentoo <ebuilds> for Horde, Imp and Turba. I hope to make these available soon (August). |
Have you got some results already? Or some work in progress one could take a look on?
I want to use Horde / IMP as the local mail solution for the company I work for.. Maybe I can help a little..
Marcus _________________ pedo mellon a minno
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