On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:52:48 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:01:09 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >>> actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when >>> ever some one say a name "mail server" unintentionally mailer daemon >>> comes in my mind. this is my first time that i am implementing MTA on >>> linux.since i have just started to shift from Microsoft to Linux. >>> there is lot to learn. >> >> I first switched -time ago- from MDaemon (v3.2) when I installed a >> Linux system and had to select a good replacement for it. >> >> Hint: write down in a paper what's your current mail system data flow >> (user's mailboxes, incoming/outgoing messages, filter needings, >> anti-spam/ malware needings, local/remote connections...), what are >> your current requirements and what are the tasks that MDaemon is doing >> right now. This will help you to get the "big picture" for a better >> understanding. >> > sorry i think i explain a bit wrong. i was using Mdeamon in my last > company my current company is fetching emails from mail server from our > service provider.
Ah, okay :-) > since we fetch the email via pop and sent via smtp the problem is i need > to make backup of individual PST. What? I don't get this... you mean you need to migrate the e-mails and other stuff from Outlook clients to the new e-mailing service? > therefore i presented the idea to management for IMAP. Well, yes, IMAP is good for migrating messages but can be slow if there are thousand messages to move or copy and/or if the IMAP server is accessed over Internet (I mean, not "locally"). > so i think my basic need are. POP emails from hosted server. If you mean to fecth POP e-mails from your server to place them in your own server, Fetchmail or Getmail can do the jobs as I already told you. Once the messages are in your server, they can be accessed locally via POP, IMAP or directly put into the user's home. > IMAP for local users, Good. > ldap for AddressBook/contents update. OpenLDAP can hold this but it can take you some time to configure it. For a bunch of users maybe you should reconsider it. > spam filter and antivirus scan. Antispam is necessary, the AV only when supporting windows clients. > and obviously Web access for clients. Then you have to add a web server and a webmail service :-) > and i dont know if SQL database is better then local mail folders. > because mdeamon use to store data in a folder. but i think SQL is much > more better then that. A SQL datadase for storing 20 users is a bit overwhelming, IMO. It will require an extra component (MySQL, PostgresSQL or SQLite) and the benefit of having a database for that small amount of users can be unnoticed. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jv3eni$vb5$5...@dough.gmane.org
