[TriLUG] Banging away at mail server setup

Justin Johnson justin at eCotton.com
Tue Dec 11 17:34:28 EST 2001


Ok, now I'm getting frustrated.

As far as I can tell, the piece I am missing is a (?)MDA. I'm running
Postfix as the MTA,
and am looking to IMP or SquirrelMail for web based email solution, but I
have a 'hole' in the middle. No where to set up users, mailboxes, folders,
etc.

I can send and receive email just fine for users that have accounts on the
mail server, but I don't want to set up machine accounts for people just to
have email. They have no other reason to access this machine.

I'm looking for a 'big picture' of something similar to IMail on Windows.

Or put another way, "What would I set up if I where a very small ISP in
rural NC with
100 customers, and I want to use a Linux solution for email?"

Sorry to pound on this, but I am getting close to trying to install
Communigate
(commercial solution for linux), and if that fails, format and go back to
Windows.
Really wanted to come through here with a GPL solution so I could go to the
boss and
say 'See, Linux can give us what we need!' Maybe (definitely) I am to green
for the task...





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