Re: email server

Depending on your environment, ClamAV on mail servers is helpful to the
windows users.
RoundCube is another good end-user email service to setup.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:
>
> 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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