[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Email server "out of the box"...

[Thilo Bangert]

Hi,

On Saturday, 9. March 2002 09:00, you wrote:
> I have kind of made this inquiry before... however since my email was
> messed up I dunno if it ever really got answered.
>
> I'm looking for an "out of the box" email solution with Gentoo,
> meaning that all the software in question can be supplied via the
> normal portage tree. I'm already quite pleased with Apache/PHP as
> well as MySQL via this method. I like it even better than if I did it
> myself through source (as is the case on my other server).
>
> I need a mail solution that creates virtual mail users on virtual
> domains. I'd also like it to have some method of opening up a relay
> (like SMTP after POP or something like that). I have a server with a
> few domains pointing to it and I like giving out email addresses to
> friends and associates.
>
> My preference is to use either Postfix or Qmail as the MTA. I've
> worked with qmail in the past and then have a POP daemon and tools to
> handle the virtual domains. I have NO interest in IMAP for anything.
>
> Is there something in Portage that someone has used to do this? I
> figure with the way its simplified getting Apache/PHP/MySQL up that
> there has to be some no brainer (by comparison) email solution. Heck,
> even an ebuild of vpopmail wouldn't be bad.
>
> Joshua

i will have to setup a mailserver of that kind myself within the next 
weeks. i must have missed your first message

here's what i plan to include:

qmail (+ Patches like QMAILQUEUE, big-todo etc.)
qmail-notify for mailnotifications
qmail-autoresponder for autoresponder
qmail-scanner for emailscanning (hence QMAILQUEUE)
qqrbl.pl for RBL support (optional)
relay-ctrl for POP-before-SMTP authentication
vmailmgr for virtual hosts
mailfront + cvm-vmailmgr for SMTP AUTH (PLAIN + LOGIN)
courier-imap for imap support (optional)

this allows easy webmail through omail-webmail
and easy mail configuration through omail-admin

this is a setup i have run successfully on a different server and i am 
very pleased...
besides these thing, i will have to create ebuilds for ezmlm-idx, 
sophie and sophisticated (for the sophos antivirus)

the way i am thinking of this now, this will need seperate ebuilds for 
any helper programs plus a qmail-vmailmgr ebuild which will have all 
the other programms as RDEPENDs

if you or anybody else is interested in this kind of setup we could 
work on it together...

from this point the discussion probably should continue on gentoo-dev

-- 
regards
Thilo