On 2014-12-14 18:59, Keith Smith wrote:

I want to move onto configuring a mail server.  I was thinking of
Postfix + Dovecot + Spamassassin + MySql.  add a self-signed SSL cert)
Let me see if I understand things.  If I just wanted to do SMTP and
POP I can use just Postfix by itself.

postfix doesn't do POP3, just SMTP.  If you need POP3, you would install qpopper or another POP3-providing thing.

To add IMAP to the mix I need Dovecot.  Spamassassin handles spam.
MySql is not necessary but can be used instead of flat files for
virtual hosts.

dovecot or courier-imap for IMAP.  I use courier-imap, but dovecot is quite similar.  You can use mysql for storing the mail users and their passwords.  If you have lots of users who don't have shell accounts and need to change those users' info frequently, then using mysql makes sense.  Otherwise, using standard Unix usernames/passwords is a bit easier.

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