email server

[Michael Butash]

I remember trying to setup an email for inbound, outbound, security, and 
various client protocol support circa 2008, it was a giant pain to do, 
never fully successful until years later iredmail came along that more 
or less just preconfigures everything in a basic capacity, which you can 
build on once you can examine an actual working setup.

Seeing how it is "supposed" to work already helped my understanding 
considerably of the various bits to then build on, introduce redundant 
db's, clusters, separating daemons between servers to scale beyond, etc. 
with a decent baseline of "working" vs. not.

-mb


On 12/14/2014 06:59 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Now that Bind is working I want to move onto configuring a mail 
> server.  I was thinking of Postfix + Dovecot + Spamassassin + MySql. ( 
> add a self-signed SSL cert)
>
> Is this all I need?
>
> I was thinking of starting by configuring Postfix then Dovecot. Once I 
> have that working I was thinking I would add MySql then Spamassassin.
>
> I configured a mail server about 12 years ago and want to say it was 
> Exim on Debian.  So I am a complete noob.
>
> Let me see if I understand things.  If I just wanted to do SMTP and 
> POP I can use just Postfix by itself.  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.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help!!
>
> Keith
>