[plug] imap & pop3 servers

[Adrian Woodley]

Tim,

I recently setup a multi-domain mail server for some bush fire brigades, 
using LDAP, Exim 4 and Dovecot. The setup allows the domains to be 
individually administered for accounts and aliases, with a relatively 
easy to use web interface.

Additionally, I setup Roundcube as a webmail interface, with several 
address books stored in LDAP - a per-account personal address book, a 
per-domain address book and a global address book, which contains ever 
account setup on the system.

Hopefully I'll be able to detail some of the setup of this tonight at my 
presentation (http://plug.linux.org.au/events/seminar/).

And of course, once you've got that setup, why stop there? Its trivial 
to add a jabber/XMPP server which authenticates against LDAP, so your 
users have the same username and password for their email and jabber 
accounts.

Cheers,

Adrian

Tim Bowden wrote:
> I'm setting up a new server that needs to provide simple imap &/or pop3
> for only a few accounts.  Normally I'd just put dovecot on because it's
> easy (apt-get install...) and be done with it, but at some point this
> server will need to serve multiple domains (though only a reasonably
> small number of accounts).  I will require that almost all of those
> users /don't/ have shell accounts.  Should I be looking at something
> else to handle the added complexity (cyrus? others?) or will dovecot
> handle it?
> 
> All advice appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim Bowden