MAIL TRANSPORT AGENT -------------------- which one should be choosen ( I m starting installation from scract. We need web as well as client based access of mail server) choice:sendmail/qmail/postfix/exim/any-other
try exim or postfix - they are "easy" and flexible
MAIL DELIVERY AGENT: -------------------- choice:Squirellmail/procmail/spamsassion/Any_other
procmail is a mail delivery agent spamassasin is a spam filtering app squirrelmail is a webmail program
When installing you can go with the defaults I guess.
Your main headache will be provisioning users on this - so try http://www.silverwraith.com/vexim/ or something similar.
MAIL USER AGENT --------------- Choice fot text based :mutt/pine/Any_other Choice fot web based:netscape/mozill/Any_other Choice fot client based :Balsa/evolution/Kmail/MozillaMail
leave that to your users ...
Is required to grab local user mail from central server on local mail server? [local mail server connected over permanent wan link]
permanent link with static IP? then dont waste time with fetchmail. set a hostname with mx and A records localserver.domain.com or whatever, and set mail to be delivered to the users on this server.
To provide pop services on local mail server. Choice: qpopper/imap/Any_other
courier imap - does pop3 and imap
needs to read mail from ~/Maildir/ (so you will have to set exim (say) to deliver to /home/username/maildir/)
What method i can use to authenticate mail users to access mail server. Is it fine to use /etc/passwd for 500 users. In this case how can i maintain address book at mail serve? Is ldap can be used? If yse how?
easier to use ldap / some variety of sql for this + user passwords etc
In spite of above, will thete be any requirement of proxy server to be runned on mail server, like squid etc.
No - why do you want a proxy for this? In fact it is better if you dont install a proxy on your mailserver.
suresh
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