All-in-one Server

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Martin Solčiansky <
martin.solciansky at solko.sk> wrote:

> ----- "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman at black-earth.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 10/02/2010 13:58, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > > Hello sysadmins,
> > >
> > > Happy New Year (2010)!
> > >
> > > Anyone knows if I can build a FreeBSD box that has:
> > >
> > > Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server Solution with
> > > the following capabilities:
> > > .       http, pop, smtp, and imap email access.
> > > .       Global Address List facility
> > > .       Personal Address List facility
> > > .       Personal and Group Scheduling through a calendar facility
> > > .       System Dashboards to allow monitoring of the Managed
> > > Firewall /Gateway /Mail Server.
> > > .       Ability for users to use the same password as that in
> > windows
> > > Active Directory is desired.
> > > .       Connector for Microsoft Outlook (Desirable)
> >
> > Horde or SquirrelMail + appropriate addons
> > Cyrus IMAPd or Dovecot
> > Sendmail or Postfix or Exim or ....
> >
> > You should be able to use SASL to hook up any of these to AD for
> > authentication purposes. (If you choose sendmail, you'ld want the
> > version from ports so you can compile it with all the SASL bits.)
> >
> > Horde certainly will allow you to create Global and Personal address
> > books via various different back-end databases.  In principle it can
> > use LDAP so you might be able to bodge it into AD, but I'd recommend
> > MySQL as the least grief, fastest benefit solution.
> >
> > Horde also provides shared and global calendars, accessilble via
> > CalDAV.
> >
> > No idea what to recommend as a control panel for the firewall, MTA
> > and
> > imap servers I'm afraid.
> >
> > Note that Outlook is designed to work with MS Exchange, and often
> > gives
> > less than optimal results with other mail servers.
>
> You could try zimbra for all-in-one-email-solution instead of Citadel or
> Horde+, that would solve most of the problems as it integrates all the bits
> you need into a one working opensource bundle.
>
> You can always write something to manage your firewall (like zimlet to
> zimbra) and that greatly depends on your expectations. I don't change
> firewall rules very often on my zimbra box but then again, i am the ascii
> lover ;).
>
> kind regards,
>
> s.
>


You run Zimbra on FreeBSD? Let me see the guide you followed in order to do
that although I don't love Zimbra that much because accessing it via the web
requires so much bandwidth - unless this changed.
I have seen
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Installing_GNR_on_FreeBSD_7.2_i386 but
wonder if you run the latest zimbra on your FreeBSD. Does it meet my
requirements?

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Best regards,
Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
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