On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:43 -0700, Craig White wrote: > I use a setup that I implement on all my clients... > > postfix > MailScanner (wrapper for clamav & spamassassin) > SQLGrey (greylisting) > cyrus-imapd > > mail is received by postfix, put into incoming queue, noticed by > MailScanner, checked, passed back to postfix for delivery, and finally > put into cyrus-imapd store. > The mail client (Evo, Kmail etc) then points to the local IMAP store? > cyrus-imapd includes server based sieve mail filtering, many automatic > features and allows users or administrators to individually share mail > folders. I set up all clients to use imap which allows them to use any > program on any computer on the network and still access their e-mail > and > I only have to backup the server. > This is the type of functionality I'm after. > I use RHEL or CentOS for this mail server and not Fedora because of > the > need to frequently update. I use Fedora for user desktops. > We go at a slow pace with nothing on computer being "mission critical" so I'm happy to stay with Fedora for now while I'm still learning, but when I need to free up more time for other things CentOS is the favoured option and RHEL when I'm not hands-on much. > Generally, when you want to run your own mail server, you also need to > run your own DNS server because mail delivery depends upon DNS > resolution and when you've got a mail server on your internal LAN, it > has to resolve the domain name for e-mail delivery. Generally, I go > for > overkill on mail setup because e-mail is the office/workgroup > essential. Sorting out the DNS now. > I also install the latest Horde/IMP/Kronolith/Nag/Turba/etc. (and > LDAP) > to give a fully integrated workgroup collaboration suite of not only > shared e-mail but also shared contacts, shared calendars, etc. > Until now, only heard of the Evo suite and Koffice. Will check those out. > If you plan on continuing to use the same mail accounts at the same > ISP, > then you would probably need to set up fetchmail (or getmail) to > retrieve the e-mail from the ISP and feed it into your mail server. > So the flow is: ISP -> fetchmail -> postfix/procmail/sendmail -> MailScanner -> SQLGrey -> Cyrus/Dovecot -> Evo/KOffice/etc > Craig > -- Regards, Simon Slater Registered Linux User #463789. Be counted at: http://counter.li.org/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
