Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
Throwing in another vote for Dovecot for IMAP. I'm stuck with Qmail at the moment (works fine), but Postfix is nice. As for webmail, I haven't heard Roundcube mentioned yet. We use it, and it's at least pretty enough. Requires a database, unfortunately, but it works with

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-17 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Timo Schoeler wrote: I can just vote for postfix/cyrus, or even better (from a licensing PoV), sendmail/cyrus. Speaking of Squirrelmail: Did you enable server-side sorting? 4. General Options - 10. Allow server thread sort: true 11. Allow server-side

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-17 Thread Craig Skinner
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:48:00PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Having the mail daemons use SQL for auth was too slow. would using postgreSQL for auth with postfix / Dovecot be slow even if you used top of the line hardware say a dual core CPU and 4GB memory w/ RAID 0?I am thinking very

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-17 Thread Timo Schoeler
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:06:57 -0700 Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 11:54 PM, Timo Schoeler wrote: I can just vote for postfix/cyrus, or even better (from a licensing PoV), sendmail/cyrus. Speaking of Squirrelmail: Did you enable server-side sorting? 4.

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-17 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Timo Schoeler wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:06:57 -0700 Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that tip. Unfortunately, it was with a server that did not support server-side sorting. The server was EIMS (http:// www.eudora.co.nz), a mail server that

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 12:03:10PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: That was the primary reason for using postfix with dovecot. Years back, I tried to get both sendmail and postfix working with SMTP AUTH and Cyrus as I recall. It was a mess. The super-easy integration of postfix and

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 15, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/04/15 14:06, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: My staff needs to be able to add accounts easily and unfortunately, the command line is not that easy for them. BSD auth, ldap, sql, text files - take your pick... There's also dovecot-sieve if

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On 4/16/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:43 AM, Craig Skinner wrote: At an ISP that I worked for, all user config data was held in postgres. When fields were changed, new flat files were generated (passwd, shell.allow, ftpusers, apache, quota, etc, etc).

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:48:00PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On 4/16/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:43 AM, Craig Skinner wrote: At an ISP that I worked for, all user config data was held in postgres. When fields were changed, new flat files were

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Kian Mohageri
On 4/13/07, Steven Presser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm working for a small company which has settled on OpenBSD as its server software (because the security is excellent). We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'd like to request

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Adam
Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would using postgreSQL for auth with postfix / Dovecot be slow even if you used top of the line hardware say a dual core CPU and 4GB memory w/ RAID 0?I am thinking very strongly about moving our Exchange Server to postfix / PostgresSQL. When the job

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Kian Mohageri wrote: Throwing in another vote for Dovecot for IMAP. I'm stuck with Qmail at the moment (works fine), but Postfix is nice. As for webmail, I haven't heard Roundcube mentioned yet. We use it, and it's at least pretty enough. Requires a database,

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:34 PM, Adam wrote: Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would using postgreSQL for auth with postfix / Dovecot be slow even if you used top of the line hardware say a dual core CPU and 4GB memory w/ RAID 0?I am thinking very strongly about moving our Exchange

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 13, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Does your Mail setup use a PostgreSQL backend? No. I just used plain text files. This was a small test install to evaluate for my main mail server install. I haven't used any database back-end at this point. I am wanting to know

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 13, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Vijay Sankar wrote: OpenBSD's sendmail, dovecot, and hastymail is a great solution, in my opinion, for large or small networks. It allows you to support a variety of clients very easily and with excellent security. Like Bryan Vyhmeister mentioned, postfix also is a

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Apr 13, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Vijay Sankar wrote: OpenBSD's sendmail, dovecot, and hastymail is a great solution, in my opinion, for large or small networks. It allows you to support a variety of clients very easily and with excellent security. Like Bryan Vyhmeister

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 15, 2007, at 2:03 AM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: Is there any reasonably easy way to get SMTP AUTH functioning with sendmail and dovecot? i asked about this a few weeks back and i think the answer is no. this means you have to maintain 2 pw DBs, one for dovecot,

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Martin Hedenfalk
On 4/15/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 13, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Vijay Sankar wrote: OpenBSD's sendmail, dovecot, and hastymail is a great solution, in my opinion, for large or small networks. It allows you to support a variety of clients very easily and with excellent

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:14:56AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Apr 15, 2007, at 2:03 AM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: Is there any reasonably easy way to get SMTP AUTH functioning with sendmail and dovecot? i asked about this a few weeks back and i think the

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Adam
Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 13, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Vijay Sankar wrote: OpenBSD's sendmail, dovecot, and hastymail is a great solution, in my opinion, for large or small networks. It allows you to support a variety of clients very easily and with excellent security.

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 15, 2007, at 2:53 AM, Martin Hedenfalk wrote: On 4/15/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reasonably easy way to get SMTP AUTH functioning with sendmail and dovecot? I'm using sendmail, dovecot and a PostgreSQL database with passwords. I got SMTP AUTH working

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 15, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Adam wrote: Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reasonably easy way to get SMTP AUTH functioning with sendmail and dovecot? Yes, just put WANT_SMTPAUTH=yes in your /etc/mk.conf, install the cyrus-sasl package and recompile sendmail. Then see

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Apr 15, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:14:56AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: That was the primary reason for using postfix with dovecot. Years back, I tried to get both sendmail and postfix working with SMTP AUTH and Cyrus as I recall. It was a mess.

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:06:56PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On Apr 15, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 02:14:56AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: That was the primary reason for using postfix with dovecot. Years back, I tried to get both sendmail and

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread 666a
Here is my recommendation. You only have to install and maintain patches on one piece of software other than OpenBSD. The software is OpenVPN with OpenBSD's sendmail and popa3d. Why popa3d? User can use any mail client he choses and you don't have to worry about your email server running out

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/04/15 14:06, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: This is exactly why I have hesitated to move to a system based on postfix and dovecot for my main ISP mail server. This pair are pretty easy. Postfix (also more recent Exim versions) can look at Dovecot for smtp-auth; Dovecot's auth setup is quite

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread John .
On 14/04/07, Steven Presser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm working for a small company which has settled on OpenBSD as its server software (because the security is excellent). We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'd like to request recommendations

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Shane Harbour
I'm running Postfix/Dovecot with PostgreSQL (for authorization and mail routing) all from the ports. I've got it setup so that in the near future I can do virtual hosting of my wife's domains. It's pretty simple to setup and there is a examples at postfix.org and dovecot.org. It would be

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-15 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
On 16/04/07, Shane Harbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Postfix/Dovecot with PostgreSQL (for authorization and mail routing) all from the ports. I've got it setup so that in the near future I can do virtual hosting of my wife's domains. It's pretty simple to setup and there is a

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-14 Thread Bob Beck
We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'm reasonably happy using the Courier-MTA suite on OpenBSD. It's had four reported vulnerabilities (http://secunia.com/product/2557/?task=advisories), three DOS and one remote-code-execution in a corner case

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-14 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:33:00PM -0400, Steven Presser wrote: Hello, I'm working for a small company which has settled on OpenBSD as its server software (because the security is excellent). We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'd like to request

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-14 Thread Åke Nordin
On 4/14/07, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:33:00PM -0400, Steven Presser wrote: Hello, I'm working for a small company which has settled on OpenBSD as its server software (because the security is excellent). We have settled on what software to use for

Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-13 Thread Steven Presser
Hello, I'm working for a small company which has settled on OpenBSD as its server software (because the security is excellent). We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'd like to request recommendations from the knowledgeable people of this list. The

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-13 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
Postfix and Dovecot seem to make a great pair. I have used that setup and had no problems with it. SMTP AUTH works very nicely and is easy to setup because Dovecot provides an interface for checking users against and Postfix can use that same interface for SMTP AUTH. I should make an

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Shockley
Steven Presser wrote: We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'm reasonably happy using the Courier-MTA suite on OpenBSD. It's had four reported vulnerabilities (http://secunia.com/product/2557/?task=advisories), three DOS and one remote-code-execution

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-13 Thread Vijay Sankar
On Friday 13 April 2007 20:33, Steven Presser wrote: Hello, I'm working for a small company which has settled on OpenBSD as its server software (because the security is excellent). We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'd like to request