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From: Ben Munat <bent@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] email advice
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:34:32
Message-Id: 451ADF35.5080707@munat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] email advice by kashani
1 Thanks Kashani... I will definitely look into that. A quick googling
2 turned up this:
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4 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email:_A_Complete_Virtual_System_-_Postfixadmin
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6 So, I'll try to go through that tonight.
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8 Oh, and Jesse, that howto talks about postgres... seems like it'll work
9 with that.
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11 Anyone want to defend qmail?
12
13 b
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15 kashani wrote:
16 > Ben Munat wrote:
17 >> though it still confounds me at times. I was toying with switching to
18 >> postfix, but I was put off by the fact that one has to do their own
19 >> mysql wrangling to manage their domains... vpopmail seemed like less
20 >> work.
21 >
22 > Ditch the Gentoo Virtual How-to and use PostfixAdmin if you decide to go
23 > the Postfix route. Web interface for admin, domain admin, and user self
24 > admin. I switched to it about two years ago and have been really happy.
25 >
26 >> I'm also concerned about being able to migrate all my domains'
27 >> existing mail. Vpopmail creates a directory under /var with all the
28 >> domains and all it's users. I suppose I could probably do the postfix
29 >> configuration to point each virtual user to the directory under
30 >> vpopmail instead of the usual /home dir.
31 >
32 > Anything .maildir/ format is going to be trivial to move. Most Postfix
33 > virtual stuff uses some form of the following format.
34 >
35 > /var/vmail/$domain/$user
36 >
37 > The above is configurable though you might need to tweaks things a bit
38 > if you were using /var/vmail/$user@$domain.com/ or other formats. In any
39 > case 10 minutes of scripting would handle that as well.
40 >
41 > kashani
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