Email server recommendation

Jeremy Tregunna jtregunna at blurgle.ca
Thu May 10 16:31:26 UTC 2007


I don't actually use postfix, I use sendmail; I have a milter for  
virus scanning, and dspam set up as a local mailer.

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Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna at blurgle.ca



On 9-May-07, at 4:41 PM, Ed Lucero wrote:

> OK. I'm willing to learn. What do you use to glue the dspam and your
> anti-virus together from postfix. I'm using amavisd.
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> Ed
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> From: Jeremy Tregunna [mailto:jtregunna at blurgle.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:13 PM
> To: Ed Lucero
> Cc: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Email server recommendation
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> I would actually strongly recommend against spamassassin -- it is  
> heavy on
> the resource usage, which is fine for a small mail server but once  
> you start
> handling millions of messages a day, DSPAM really shines big time  
> over that
> of SA.
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> --
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> Jeremy Tregunna
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> jtregunna at blurgle.ca
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> On 9-May-07, at 1:49 PM, Ed Lucero wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
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> isp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Richard McNeilly
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:56 AM
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> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
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> Subject: Email server recommendation
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> I am trying to plan a ISP deployment using FreeBSD.  I am more  
> familiar
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> with Linux but during my research, it's been pointed out that FreeBSD
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> the more stable and reliable choice for an ISP.  Especially as an  
> email
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> server.
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> What is the best way to manage the addition of new users to the email
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> server?  local users or is there a database solution.  Also is there a
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> software package available to easily administer email accounts or does
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> it all have to be done with custom scripts.
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> I would welcome any suggestions of anecdotes of experience.
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> Regards,
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> Richard
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> Postfix front end, with sqlgrey, and policyd, mysql.
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> Content scanning server is in the middle, using postfix , amavisd,  
> clamav,
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> spamassassin, mysql.
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> Dovecot mail repository server. Postfix, dovecot, mysql.
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> Outbound server. Postfix.
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> Ed
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