Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-11-02 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:10:10AM +0530, Abdullah wrote: > I want to setup a mailserver on a debian machine. please help me as i have > not got a perfect answer by googling. > I wuld like to use squirrelmail. please help. First set up a nameserver, see /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/DNS-HOWTO.gz. In

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-11-01 Thread Abdullah
I want to setup a mailserver on a debian machine. please help me as i have not got a perfect answer by googling. I wuld like to use squirrelmail. please help. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > I like Postfix and Dovecot

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Rod James Bio
Postfix + Cyrus + SASL for simple users. You can add spamassassin + pyzor/rzor & config your SASL to use LDAP or other auth method. For me postfix + cyrus is just a better combi. On Wednesday, 27 October, 2010 04:13 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) I think Postfix is the best open source MTA available on Linux hands down. I have used Sendmail, Qmail, and Exim and none of them have given me the flexability and security

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Joe
On 26/10/10 12:10, B. Alexander wrote: Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am running on (2.4 GHz P4, 1GB

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-10-26 16:42, Camaleón wrote: > Users like many things (i.e., Hotmail/Livemail :-P) but and admin has > also to care about another things (server requirements, performance, > stability and security). It's stable, since years and with many concurrent users. And the support efforts for expl

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Michal
On 26/10/10 13:21, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, B. Alexander wrote: I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface. It's dated in appearance and the lack of a back end database is what killed it for me. You can connect squirrellmail to sql. You s

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:14:11 +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: > On 2010-10-26 14:13, Camaleón wrote: >>> * spamassassin (in case I ever decide to work around the port 25 >>> block) > > spampd is your friend. AFAIK, "spamd" comes within SA. >>> * roundcube for webmail >> As an alternative to Roundcu

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2010-10-26 14:13, Camaleón wrote: >> * spamassassin (in case I ever decide to work around the port 25 block) spampd is your friend. >> * roundcube for webmail > As an alternative to Roundcube (I avoid webmail as much as I can) I would > take a look into Squirrel. RoundCube is simply great. A

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Michal
I think that any modern, inexpensive system (dual- or quad-core AMD CPUs running around 3GHz, 4GB RAM) would fit the bill. OP didnt say how many users would be using it, but it doesn't sound like many considering his existing box. Postfix with things like clamav, spamassiain, webmail, mysql

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:18:41 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) >> >> Spamassassin is resource (ram/cpu) consuming and provided that you are >> not going online (no spam) it could be omitted. >> >> As an alternative to

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 26 Out 2010, "B. Alexander" wrote: * roundcube for webmail You could try IMP, part of the Horde suite for e-mail. It's only slightly less ugly than SquirrelMail, but it is extremely powerful feature-wise. -- Use at own risk. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread olafrv
essage- From: "B. Alexander" Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 To: Debian-user List Subject: Mail server recommendations Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have a

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread B. Alexander
I don't mind keeping my mail in a flat file rather than a db. I guess if I were doing higher volume stuff, it might make a difference, but most of the emails I deal with are read, deal with and delete. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camal

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, B. Alexander wrote: > I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface. It's dated in appearance and the lack of a back end database is what killed it for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) I think Postfix is the best open source MTA available on Linux hands down. I have used Sendmail, Qmail, and Exim and none of them have given me the flexability and security of Postfix. Not to mention it's the easies

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread B. Alexander
I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > > (...) > > > Now the mail server, since Comcast blocked port 25, is mainly used for > > internal monitor/security messa

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: (...) > Now the mail server, since Comcast blocked port 25, is mainly used for > internal monitor/security messages, like ossec and opsview, apticron > messages, etc. So I was looking to set up an OpenVZ container, probably > sid, as a mails

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 06:10 AM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am running on (2.4 GHz P4,

Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread B. Alexander
Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am running on (2.4 GHz P4, 1GB RAM) is being beaten to death by java in