FWIW, I've been happily using uw-imapd, exim, mailscanner, spamassassin and the f-prot virus scanner in conjunction with Outlook (97,98,2000,XP) and evolution.
Haven't experienced any real problems with that setup, YMMV. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.gaddis.org> > > Team: > > I have to setup a mail system for a small LAN of mixed Debian and Win2K > clients. > Currently, I have a mail system running elsewhere that I'm not really happy > with: Exim and mailutils-imapd. I'm not happy with this because: > > mailutils-imapd balks at subfolder creation > mailutils-imapd fills the / partition (the system has a very simple > partitioning scheme) and stops working > mailutils-imapd and Eudora works fine, but I can't get the Outlook Express > 6 imap client to connect to it > plus, Exim has had several major releases, and they don't make it into the > Debian package stream - what's up with that? > > So, I tried a few things: > > Exim and Courier-imap with exim modified to use maildir format - I found a > good reference for this setup, but I couldn't make it work - i'm not sure > that the maildir format parameter for exim is the same in exim 3 as in exim > 4 (the howto was for exim4), and I couldn't find it anywhere in the the > exim3 docs on exim.org. Also, I think I needed to create the maildir > files, but the script for creating them isn't included in these packages . > . . . > > So I figured, what the hell, I have nothing invested in exim - I'll go with > a fullblown courier install, mta and all. > > Well, either I did something wrong, or the Debian packages are missing some > of the test-scripts included in the standard courier distribution. Also, I > don't seem to be able to locate a HowTo, and I would really like to avoid > plowing through the entire set of docs just to get the basics working. > > So, I'm looking for pointers/suggestions to: > > 1. A straight-forward Courier howto > 2. Or a recommendation for a solution to meet the parameters below. > > LAN mail environment. In/Out via SMTP and a smarthost. Anti-SPAM and > Anti-Virus scanning/processing options (Spam-Assassin and amavis?) would be > nice, but not necessary to start. Debian and Win2K clients running > Evolution and Outlook Express, respectively, accessing via IMAP so that all > mail will be local to the LAN server and stored in individual homedirs. > All clients have a local Unix account on the Debian server. > > In the past, I used SlowLaris, and either sendmail/popper (I was NOT a > sendmail guru - I just knew which 3 lines to modify) or post.office (which > softwar.com now OpenWave has abandoned). > > All help/suggestions apprciated. > > madmac > > > > -- > Doug MacFarlane > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
