FreeBSD 6.1 - Web & Mail Server

[jan gestre]

On 7/19/06, albi <albi at scii.nl> wrote:
>
> Allen D. Tate wrote:
>
> > I am preparing to setup a FreeBSD 6.1 machine with Apache/MySQL/PHP for
> > my web server and I am curious as to your thoughts on the best mail
> > server to install and why. Any mail server I should steer clear from at
> > all costs? Thanks in advance for your input.
>
> software-wise :
>
> dovecot + postfix + squirrelmail has proven to me to be the most
> flexible and easiest to set up and maintain
>
> hardware-wise :
>
> depends on the amount of users + activity i think, the more RAM the
> happier the setup for webmail
>
>
> i ran squirrelmail before with courier-imap and postfix but now i'm
> running dovecot + postfix and roundcube as webmail client, have no problems
> so far, and you gotta see roundcube its cool better than squirrel and very
> easy to configure. although it is still in the development stage it's good
> enough for production use, for starters roundcube has drag and drop
> features, ain't that great? but i suggest you use the svn version instead of
> the ports.



HTH