Re: [gentoo-server] mailserver setup of choice?

[Bill Roberts]

On 17:41 Fri 20 Jan     , Jean Blignaut wrote:
>    I was wondering what your opinions are on the best mailserver setup to
>    use?
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>    I have painstakingly setup an exim 4 server with exiscan spamassassin
>    clamav mysql courier-imap/pop3 squirrelmail (imap web interface) and vexim
>    (smtp account management - web interface) however I have found it at times
>    unpleasant to administrate and some times wonder if I should not rather
>    have gone with postfix or qmail

I just rebuilt my email services on my new Gentoo router/firewall etc.,
after a couple of seemingly unsolvable problems developed on my old email
server.  The old server was pretty complex, I didn't document well, and I
just couldn't figure out to solve the problem. 

So I resolved to make my new email server as simple as possible, always
keeping in mind security.

I used the following:

    http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Small_Email_Server_with_Postfix_with_POP3_%28TLS%29
    and
    http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Spam_Filtering_with_Gentoo%2C_Postfix%2C_Amavis
    
I combined and modified somewhat, managed to eliminate cyrus-sasl (never
really understood why it was being used, no mysql database, no imap (I
really never used it). I still have some minor tweaking to do, mostly based
on the some of the ideas and links at the bottom of 

    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xml

Putting it together was fast, I think I understand every piece that went
into it, and it seems very secure. 

Good luck

Bill Roberts