[olug] Email server

[Jay Swackhamer]

A simple setup with a single domain =

Sendmail + fetchmail

Fetchmail retrieves and sorts the mail to the local server.
Then the users could use pop3 to the local server and leave the messages
on the server. Then if a machine crashes, the mail would all be retrieved
when the new one is in place.

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More work, more functionality. Not trivial, but not extremely mind-twisting.

Fetchmail + Qmail + qmailscanner + clamav + spamassassin + squirrelmail +
courier Imap

You could download/sort/virus scan/spam scan all email. Imap to the
outlook client or squirrelmail for web-based email. Leave the messages on
the server and you will have guaranteed access, even if they need to use
another's PC.


I prefer having squirrelmail setup, even if not being used, to do
troubleshooting.

I use the qmail setup described above.........and have supported other's
installations.......

> I have an interesting situation that seems to be a big problem for the
> company  I'm working for.
>
> They get all their email from Binary.net through POP3.  4 accounts total.
> you all know the problems with POP3 for portability.  They each download
> the emails to their PCs.  There is not an individual backup plan for the
> individual PCs because nobody understands Outlook well enough to do
> anything with it.  The general managers computer crashed Monday and he
> can't access his old stuff now until it gets fixed (~1 week).
>
> I suggested that they use a local email server to get their POP3 email.
> Serve it up via IMAP to their local machines.  Then using Samba share that
> machines mail folders with the main backup server and do a weekly backup
> of the emails.
>
> I'm figuring on using fetchmail for the POP3 side to Binary.net but I
> don't have a clue as to what I need on the local side.  I assume I'll need
> something like qmail or sendmail to distribute the incoming mail then some
> sort of IMAP server to the individual users.
>
> Mostly this is confusion on my part about how the individual pieces fit
> together.  I also need reccommendations on a good IMAP server.  I'm pretty
> sure I'll use qmail and I see a few programs for IMAP with qmail.
>
> Other options would be to put a spam filter on this IMAP server.
> Something bayes like that would automatically run the false positives and
> false negatives every night or every couple of hours as long as they put
> them in the appropriate folder.
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable solution?  Is fetchmail, qmail, and
> whatever IMAP server very hard to setup?  Would a PIII 700MHz with 128MB
> RAM work pretty well for this?
>
> Later
> Eric Penne
> epenne at ieee.org
>
> PS. I may bring this machine to the installfest with a preloaded distro
> (Debian Sid) to see if I can get it setup with all of the gurus around.
>
>
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