mail setup recommendation

[Stuart Sears]

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Søren Neigaard wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I would like a mail setup like this:
> 
> ------------------
> SMTP server with SSL/TLS authentication
> 
> IMAP server with SSL/TLS authentication
> 
> Spamassain
> 
> clamav
> 
> Possibility to make sorting rules on the server, so that messages are
> sorted into different IMAP folders (dont need a interface, can configure
> in files for each rule), so i dont have to do the sorting in the mail
> clients.
> 
> squirrelmail webinterface
> ------------------
> 
> Ive searched it, and it seems that a combo of sendmail, UW IMAP and
> procmail can do this, but in a total newbie at this, and the
> documentation i have found so far is a bit hard to understand (for me
> anyways), and i cant find any documentation on the sendmail+UW IMAP
> combination.
is this going to be a large installation? wiht thousands of users?
IMHO,
if you are setting up SMTP for the first time ever and using Fedora
Core, my inclination would be to point you in the direction of postifx
rather than sendmail, but this is my personal bigotry at work <grin>
for an IMAP server, Fedora comes with two very good ones. I have no idea
if UW-IMAP is still part of the distro, but dovecot and cyrus both are.
Of the two dovecot is significantly easier to setup (install it, a few
simple edits and you're practially done) but if you want easily
confiugurable filtering, perhaps cyrus will do for you - it supports
sieve which can provide a web-based frontend to allow users to set up
their own rules without too much admin inervention, see:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/websieve
procmail requires more work on your part (or your users have to write
their own .procmailrc recipes) but works well (in fact, this is what I use)

> So my question is this... Do you guys think my setup is the one to go
> for, and do you guys know of any good documentation to get this complete
> setup working (links or books)?
http://www.postfix.org
http://www.dovecot.org
http://www.procmail.org
http://www.sendmail.org


for a reasonably integrated solution, you may consider using your SMTP
server of choice with an antivirus/spamassassin frontend like amavis or
Mailscanner
http://www.mailscanner.info
http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/

if it's of interest, my setup uses

Postfix incoming -> MailScanner -> clamav -> spamassassin -> Postfix
local delivery -> procmail -> IMAP folders
which are then served out by dovecot


HTH

Stuart

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