E-Mail Package Advise

bone · Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 4:21 pm Post subject: E-Mail Package Advise

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.

alec · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here

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!

swales · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 13

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.

rphillips · Retired Dev Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

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.

jtanner · Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2002 6:25 pm Post subject:

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

leej · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 280

lamer · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 16 Location: St. Paul, Mn

Exim, Courrier, Squirrelmail

Our exim build supports SMTP-AUTH-TLS out of the box.

teejot · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 34

[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 ...

mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

aprodigy · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 1

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!

mgirard · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 64

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

sfachihome · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2002 Posts: 1

Hy, I'am trying to install HORDE / IMP but I can't get it...

I use postfix / courier-imap / php / mysql

cu. ml

Konfuzius · n00b Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 58 Location: Schwarzenbek