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Re: mail server replacement for qmail/vpopmail



On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:54:10PM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm trying to find replacement for qmail/vpopmail (that is, mail server
> with virtual domains and non-system users). the reason I'm doing that is
> that I'm installing many servers with this configuration, and doing it
> from source is a lot of work (installing and searching for security
> updates). I want to do it with the packages that comes with sarge.
> 
I would personally recommend postfix.

> I thought of using postfix with courier or cyrus. the cyrus package is
> still at version 2.1 which doesn't support virtual domains (or does it?),
> so I'm left with courier. 
> 
If you use courier and have many users , you will want a databse lookup
for users.  PostgreSQL is the best way to go there.  You will need the
postfix-pgsql and courier-authpostgresql packages, at least.  Of course,
you could backport cyrus2.2 to Sarge or find a suitable backport out
there.  If you will have many thousands of users and you are the full
time admin of the server, I would definitely recommend cyrus.  It very
nicely handles extremely large setups.

> I read a lot of howto's but I can't find a solution to this problem:
> some users need server side filtering (e.g. 'mailfilter' file in the
> virtual users directory). in qmail/vpopmail I just put a line in the
> .qmail file under the users directory. how do I do that in postfix/courier?
> 
Not sure about that.

-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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