Re: webmail options for sarge with php5
This guide: http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-sarge/ helped me a lot
setting up my mail-server.
Squirrelmail is a GREAT webmail sollution IMHO, I love it...
Sturla
On Tue, October 3, 2006 09:03, Joseph Neal wrote:
> So, I assured everyone in my little organization that that moving from
> shared
> hosting to a VPS was in fact a good idea, that that they could still have
> their free web mail and that it was not in fact paying more money for
> fewer
> features. Now they want their webmail. It now occurs to me that I don't
> know a damn thing about email.
>
> I'm using sarge with the dotdeb php5 packages so I get dependency errors
> regardless of what try to install, but I know they lie. I've got postfix
> configured and working fine for an MTA. I am intrigued by courier and
> would
> not mind going with an all courier setup, including their webmail thing if
> that would be saner than mixing packages. I'm planning on some downtime
> to
> upgrade to etch and migrate to mysql5 between Christmas and the new year
> should etch actually make it out on time. That would be a good time to
> change MTAs as welll. For the record I think changing from "debian
> releases
> when it's ready" was a bad idea. Anyway. I'm on a a VZ based VPS with
> 256
> ram, though I removed all the control panel crap they loaded it up with by
> default. Memory overhead is a concern.
>
> I need to provide email for 30 people, with that number expected to expand
> to
> to no more than 50 before we're able to increase resources.
>
> questions:
>
> Am I better off trying to shoehorn in packages from etch or packages from
> sarge to work with the dotdeb php5? I'd prefer horde, but I'm not up to
> maintaining it with packages from upstream so others will work.
>
> Can anyone vouch for these?
>
> http://debian.jones.dk/hykrion/pool-sarge-all/horde3/
>
> Is there an advantage to upgrading to the postfix package in backports?
>
> Since the webmail client is the only thing that's going to need to be
> making
> connections to a POP or IMAP connections, how many corners am I going to
> be
> able to cut security wise? Does the webmail client usually handle
> authentication or is webmail authentication usually done the same as when
> it
> is accessed remotely? I'm hoping to avoid setting up TLS or SASL if I can
> help it. Would I be better off leaving php out of the picture and just
> offering remote access and no webmail?
>
> Given my memory limit, what's the best spam solution?
>
> I'm tempted to make them all learn to use mutt. (no, i'm not getting paid
> for
> this.)
>
> thanks
>
>
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