How difficult is it to run your own email server?

[Mark Phillips]

Qmailtoaster looks great. Too bad it is an rpm and not Debian
compatible. 

I didn't find any discussion if alien worked in this particular
situation or not. I did find this write-up
http://www.shupp.org/toaster/?page=preface#whatisatoaster which covered
installing most of the bits of qmail toaster on a Debian box. Not sure
how current it is.

How different is CentOS from Debian? I have only ever used Debian, so I
am a little concerned about adding yet one more unknown to the puzzle.

Thanks for the lead!!

Mark

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:35 -0700, Jorge Delacruz wrote:
> Please check out qmailtoaster.  It even comes in an ISO that has the
> whole server side well integrated.  It provides MTA, MDA, anti-spam,
> anti-virus, imap, pop, webmail, muti-domain support, certificates, and
> a web-based point & click interface so you don't have to learn too
> much.  I've set up a few of these (not the ISO, but sitting on CentOS
> 4), and it works very well - takes hardly any (about an hour per
> month, maybe) of my time.
>  
> JD
> 
> 
> Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>         I am thinking about setting up my own mail server (IMAP) so I
>         can sync
>         email, contacts, calendars with my blackberry. I have been
>         researching
>         email servers on Debian, and have a few questions. 
>         
>         I need email for 5 users, 2-3 have Blackberries, and there are
>         2 domains
>         involved. On the desktop, they all use Evolution.
>         
>         1. How difficult is it to maintain am email server? 
>         A couple of articles/forums recommend using a third party for
>         email
>         since keeping an email server secure is hard and a takes lots
>         of time.
>         Keeping on top of all the types of attacks and exploits people
>         come up
>         with, and then install patches to prevent them from taking
>         over your
>         server and using it for nefarious activities is a full time
>         job. Is this
>         true?
>         
>         2. What combinations of MTA, MDA, MUA's do people use?
>         I have run across several articles that combine Postfix,
>         Courier or
>         Dovecot, and SquirrelMail or Qmail, MySQL, ClamAV, and
>         SpamAssassin.
>         Which is better (i.e. easier to install & maintain) Courier or
>         Dovecot?
>         What other combinations are better? How much time does it take
>         to keep
>         all these pieces secure?
>         
>         3. How much hardware do I need?
>         I plan on using the funambol server for syncing the
>         blackberry, and that
>         requires a P4, 1.8 GHz, 200 MB disk space, and 512 MB of RAM.
>         How much
>         more do I need for email? Could my email server fit on the
>         same machine
>         or a separate machine? The funambol server is a J2EE
>         application (tomcat
>         & mysql) (http://www.funambol.com/).
>         
>         Thanks!
>         
>         Mark
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