Hi. My account rep at Verio suggested I look at your site for software. I am not a technical person, more in the marketing area; but once I find what I am looking for I can pass onto our programmer.
FreeBSD is an operating system which comes with some very elegant ways to manage application software, but you're talking about the application software here. And there's an awful lot of it available. So the first point is, you have Choice. As the Perl people say, there's more than one way to do it.
FreeBSD is an excellent operating system for this type of role, but there is so much choice of software that you would almost certainly find it cost-effective to involve someone who already has a good idea of the field.
Specifically, we are looking for a mail server solution
sendmail is the default mail server software with FreeBSD and it's excellent, but you could also use Exim, qmail, postfix and a couple of other alternatives. Each has different merits.
that will do personalization
I'm not too sure what you mean by that...
/html transmissions
mail servers are generally agnostic about whether the mails are in plain text, html or both.
, plus the required subscribe/unsubscribe functions.
That's a mailing list. Mailing list software runs alongside a mail server. Again, lots of choice... ezmlm, mailman, majordomo...
We are also using @Mail and I saw it referenced as a Webmail solution on your site.
Can you help point me where to find the overview of your software programs in general and specifically a mail server and info on Webmail.
Webmail (and there a several webmail systems available) is really just some cgi scripts that access mailboxes using (normally) imap.
FreeBSD administrators often "roll their own" solutions. But there are several established combinations. For example, the author of the qmail mail server also wrote the ezmlm mailing list manager, and it makes sense to use them together. A company called Inter7 have added some tweaks to this setup with additional software called vpopmail (for managing virtual domains and users), qmailadmin for administrating e-mail accounts and mailing lists, and a webmail system (that I'm not personally very keen on) called Sqwebmail.
You might find it interesting to look over their site at:
http://www.inter7.com
Possibly more interesting webmail solutions could be horde and phpgroupware, both of which offer additional features such as calendars, to-do lists, and are easy to extend in different ways to suit your specific requirements.
Personally, I'd probably use qmail, ezmlm (or in fact a version of it called ezmlm-idx), vpopmail, qmailadmin, courier (for pop and imap servers) and either horde or phpgroupware.
If you go to:
http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
you'll be able to read some info on all these pieces of software.
HTH
PWR.
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