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Re: [LUG] Debian Mail server setup

 

Rob Beard wrote:
> 
> I managed to get fetchmail to download my mail, but I couldn't connect
> to the server from Thunderbird using imap.

> - Download mail from various pop3/imap mail accounts for each user on
> the server

Argh - this is the worst possible start to running your own email server
IMHO. If you go to the trouble of running an email server, most of the
benefit is down to getting email done right in my opinion, where as this
way you pick up everyone elses failings.

Why bother with an email server, you can simply code up all these
accounts in the email client.


> - Send mail to my ISP (blueyonder) using standard SMTP,
> - Allow users on the network to login to the server ideally using IMAP4
> with Thunderbird or *cough* Outlook *cough*.
> - Allow access to the mail using webmail (something along the lines of
> Horde webmail).

I've used Iloha and Squirrelmail, Squirrelmail is a lot better, Iloha a
lot simpler and more hackable, but Squirrelmail is easier to get working
well I think.

> - Virus/spam checking mail (used ClamAV on the SME server box for virus
> checking before)

Just reject Windows executable formats (and maybe .zip) at SMTP time,
Postfix does it with two regular expressions, for the rest (shouldn't be
much) deal with it in the client.

> I'm assuming as a minimum I will need a basic install of Debian 3.1
> along with the webserver components and maybe SQL server?

Consider nicking a scenario that matches your needs from
http://wiki.dovecot.org/ if you like dovecot.

 Simon

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