Justin Johnson wrote:
you also need a large /var partition for mail and if you are using IMAP in the future large /home dir if you expect a lot of saved emailsI think I pretty much have a game plan that I can wade through, although I do have a couple of questions, one of which is tired and beat to death, so I apologize in advance... I have Googled and dug through mail archives but can not find anything clear.
Do I need to make any special considerations for partitioning this machine when setting it up? I ask becasue the shares that will be set up will be as follows:
\work - Everyone will have full read / write access. Will build directory
structure down from here.
\finance - Only 3 of us will have access full read / write to this share,
all others NO access
adduser johnd -s /bin/false 'this adds the mail user and does not give them shell access'For mail I will just add users to the machine and then disable their console login ability (i can do this, right?)
Will use POP/SMTP protocols, possiblyI would first check to see if the website provider offers email hosting, depending on your website plan, most providers offer a number of email accts, we use website source and they give 100 free email addresses with our acct, along with mailing lists. I am not against inhouse mail servers, but if you already are already paying for the resources, use them. Another thing is that if you intend on having Internet access I would strongly urge you do not put samba on the same machine as email. This machine will need to be on your DMZ and firewalled.
latter moving to IMAP. At first the mail will only serve the local network
machines, but my next step after getting that up will be to contact our
website hosting provider about setting up an MX record to point to our DSL
IP and then providing internet email for everyone in the company.
Does this bring any special considerations into play for initial setup of Postfix?
That's my game plan for now. Should I be considering anything else? Am I missing anything?
I guess I should also mention that I do not intend to allow anyone other than myself to have console login privledges to this machine. Others will only need to access the shares from their Windows clients and get/send mail via POP/SMTP.
Thanks, Justin
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