[TriLUG] Email Setup

[Jason Tower]

i've found courier to be very easy to set up, the only downside is that 
it doesn't do mbox, just maildir.   however, the mb2md script does a 
very good job of converting them:

http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/

courier does pop, imap, ssl (both with and without tls), ldap/mysql 
lookups, and all the other goodies you'd expect.  i've been running it 
for a couple of years now with zero problems.

jason

Steve Hoffman wrote:
> Thanks for all the suggestions so far...I'll look into that binc, I've
> also found "Dovecot" but the  only way to get multiple passwd files is
> to use the beta version...yuk!  I'd prefer to just drop in an IMAP
> server to setting up a whole new environment, but sometimes i just
> have to bit the bullet.  I'm setting up a dummy server this weekend to
> reproduce the environment and I'll probably end up trying a few of the
> different suggestions.
> 
> Please keep them coming! 
> 
> Steve 
> 
> On Apr 1, 2005 8:45 AM, Chander Ganesan <chander at mti-nc.com> wrote:
> 
>>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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