Email server control panel
Scott Sharkey
ssharkey at linuxunlimited.com
Mon Aug 1 20:24:23 UTC 2005
I am using:
Postfix
PostfixAdmin
Amavisd-new
Courier-imap
Squirrelmail
Maia Mailguard
ClamAV
for this. A bit of a pain to get it all installed, but once done, it
works great. The key is PostfixAdmin, and Maia, in my opinion. This
combination does exactly what you ask.
-Scott
Steve Buehler wrote:
> I was hoping somebody here might have a solution for my problem. I
> am wanting to setup an email server for our clients. So they would have
> one server for their websites and one server for their email. The
> following is the minimum of what I need for it.
>
> 1. Control Panel for each domain so that the domain owner can add their
> own email addresses.
> 2. Control Panel for each user that is added to a domain so that they
> can change their own passwords if they want. Also so that there can be
> a link to a program like Squirrelmail that we would install on the
> server. I only want one copy of Squirrelmail if possible so that copies
> don't have to be installed for each domain. The program Squirrelmail
> can be another program, but it would be nice if it was Squirrelmail
> because I know and like it.
> 3. Control Panel for the main Admin to add the domains that will be on
> the server.
> 4. Virtualization so that each domain can have an "admin" or "steve" if
> they want as their logins.
> 5. Must run on a RHEL ES 4 or 3 server.
> 6. MailScanner/SpamAssassin with a virus scanner. For a normal
> installation of a server, I can install these with no problem. It
> doesn't have to be MailScanner/SpamAssassin if there is something else
> that would work just as well and is as easy to manage/learn. A virus
> scanner for all incoming and outgoing email is a must and no solution
> will work if it can't do this.
>
> My main problem is that the solutions that I find won't fit the bill
> because of one or more of the following:
> 1. Can't install the program, Control Panel, on our own server.
> 2. Cost to much
> 3. Has a monthly charge to use it
> 4. Want a per domain charge, which would again...cost to much since we
> have about 1000 domains.
> 5. Won't work as just an email server. It wants to be the whole
> hosting solution and at the moment, we don't want that and can't change
> the Ensim control panels that we have now. We are going to stick with
> the Ensim control panel for the web hosting but need to move the email
> off to a separate server because of the load on the server due to 10's
> of thousands of emails that our clients get and receive daily.
>
> A free solution would be the best option if available since the majority
> (about 95%) of our clients are low end and don't pay much more than
> $20US a month. VPOPmail http://www.inter7.com/index.php?page=vpopmail
> is a nice solution, but it only runs on qmail and, if possible, I would
> rather use sendmail.
>
> Thank You
> Steve
>
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