[olug] Email server

[Terry]

Here is what I recommend:
Fedora Core1
Postfix (SMTP)
Dovecot (IMAP) use Maildir
Spamassassin

If fetchmail doesn't support maildir directly, you can
simply forward the email using fetchmail to your local
smtp server which can then deliver the mail locally.

Good luck.

--- Eric Penne <epenne at olug.org> wrote:
> 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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=====
Terry

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