[TriLUG] Email Setup

[Chander Ganesan]

Look into Binc IMAP .  It also has tools that support POP, it uses the 
maildir format, and is designed to host multiple domains with ease (I'm 
doing it now).

All the other normal stuff is available...ssl, etc.  Authentication can 
occur via a variety of mechanisms, ldap, passwd, kerberos, etc.  The 
directory structure you list below is more or less exactly what BINC 
uses.  You can manage and maintain passwd files on a per-domain basis as 
well.

Chander

Steve Hoffman wrote:

>Been doing quite a bit of research on MTA's and retrieval daemons for
>email, but I wanted to know what other people are using.
>
>We basically host email for several hundred domains and are using Exim
>as the MTA in mbox format with tpop3d to pick mail up, throw a little
>pop-before-smtp in there and viola...our setup.
>
>Basically all I'm trying to do is add IMAP (timapd would have been
>perfect but doesn't exist yet) for these virtual users, but none of
>them seem to support mbox format or are configurable enough to use our
>current directory structure (ex /etc/virtual/domain.com/passwd,
>/var/spool/virtual/domain.com/user, etc)  So if I'm going to convert
>mailboxes then I might as well look into redoing the whole shebang!
>
>So what can I use that's relatively easy to setup and very reliable
>for multiple domains.  Would prefer RPM based, since this will run on
>RHEL3, but I'll do source too.
>
>TIA,
>Steve
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