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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