[TriLUG] Banging away at mail server setup

[Jon Carnes]

Postfix is cool, but I have a feeling that what you are actually looking for
is Cyrus
  http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/

This lets you add users for just mail accounts.  Red Hat comes with a
standard RPM for installing an older version of Cyrus.  Give it a whack and
see if that does the job.  Note: Cyrus is going to take you at least 8 hours
to install and get working.  It is however, a great email solution.  The big
gotcha is that Cyrus expects and needs for you to use some form of external
authentication.  Integrating that authentication with Cyrus is the biggest
pain the ass that you will run across and will eat up about 6 hours (of the
8 necessary to get it running).

Jon Carnes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Johnson" <justin at ecotton.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Banging away at mail server setup


> 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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