Seeking Mail Server Suggestions

[Marcin Jessa]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:53:03 -0700 (PDT)
Tannis McLaine <gamesomedude at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm not new to FreeBSD or Apache, but I am new to the
> world of email serving. Some of my friends and
> classmates have a server for hosting our project
> websites on several domains, but we don't currently
> host our own email. (Sendmail scared us!!) We have
> been doing some research into the topic and have found
> lots of information on specific areas, but no good
> general discussion. Because of this, I ask you for
> your experienced advice. What do you recommend we look
> into for running our own complete mail system? Our
> current setup is explained below, as are our goals for
> email. We don't see instructions, just some advice and
> pointers, such as which daemons/packages to user and
> which to avoid.
> 
> Currently:
> * FreeBSD 5.4 on 933 MHz Pentium3, 768 MB RAM
> * Apache
> * ~12 user accounts, ~6 groups
> * Perl scripts to handle adding/deleting users and
> maintaining web space for projects and for users.
> * No databases, just perl scripts and flat files.
> 
> Email Goals:
> * Incoming (via Postfix?)
> * Outgoing (via Postfix and POP-before-SMTP or other
> authentication?)
> * IMAP and POP3 (Courier?)
> * Webmail (OpenWebMail or maybe SquirrelMail)
> * Spam filtering (via SpamAssassin?) 
> One other additional goal is to maybe implement some
> sort of user database to help maintain the server (or
> a cluster of servers) as our needs grow. Maybe
> something with OpenLDAP or MySQL. It might be handy to
> have various flags/settings for each user account, to
> enable or disable "features" like "SSH Shell Access"
> or to adjust quotas for each user from a central
> location. We don't want or need anything overly
> complex or pre-fab, but it would be nice to automate
> and organize some of this information and these tasks.

Check out http://high5.net/postfixadmin/
There are also commercial solutions, but I assume you don't want that.

Cheers,
Marcin Jessa