LAN Mailserver - what packages
Team:
I have to setup a mail system for a small LAN of mixed Debian and Win2K clients.
Currently, I have a mail system running elsewhere that I'm not really happy
with: Exim and mailutils-imapd. I'm not happy with this because:
mailutils-imapd balks at subfolder creation
mailutils-imapd fills the / partition (the system has a very simple partitioning
scheme) and stops working
mailutils-imapd and Eudora works fine, but I can't get the Outlook Express 6
imap client to connect to it
plus, Exim has had several major releases, and they don't make it into the
Debian package stream - what's up with that?
So, I tried a few things:
Exim and Courier-imap with exim modified to use maildir format - I found
a good reference for this setup, but I couldn't make it work - i'm not sure
that the maildir format parameter for exim is the same in exim 3 as in exim
4 (the howto was for exim4), and I couldn't find it anywhere in the the exim3
docs on exim.org. Also, I think I needed to create the maildir files, but
the script for creating them isn't included in these packages . . . .
So I figured, what the hell, I have nothing invested in exim - I'll go with
a fullblown courier install, mta and all.
Well, either I did something wrong, or the Debian packages are missing some
of the test-scripts included in the standard courier distribution. Also,
I don't seem to be able to locate a HowTo, and I would really like to avoid
plowing through the entire set of docs just to get the basics working.
So, I'm looking for pointers/suggestions to:
1. A straight-forward Courier howto
2. Or a recommendation for a solution to meet the parameters below.
LAN mail environment. In/Out via SMTP and a smarthost. Anti-SPAM and Anti-Virus
scanning/processing options (Spam-Assassin and amavis?) would be nice, but
not necessary to start. Debian and Win2K clients running Evolution and Outlook
Express, respectively, accessing via IMAP so that all mail will be local
to the LAN server and stored in individual homedirs. All clients have a
local Unix account on the Debian server.
In the past, I used SlowLaris, and either sendmail/popper (I was NOT a sendmail
guru - I just knew which 3 lines to modify) or post.office (which softwar.com
now OpenWave has abandoned).
All help/suggestions apprciated.
madmac
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Doug MacFarlane
madmac@covad.net
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