[plug] imap & pop3 servers

[Peter]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:26 +0800, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> If you can give me some details of what you're trying to achieve, I can 
> probably help you out with some setup and config.
> 
> Adrian
> 

Adrian,

Thanks for the offer...   I currently run a server with around 20
websites and associated email.  This server's use has grown over the
last 4 years....  I started with just a couple of personal sites and
built on it from there.

My current server runs apache, mysql & exim4.  E-mail is not setup as
virtual domains so e-mail sent to user at domain1 or user at domain2 both go
to the same mailbox.  I have on occasion used procmail to reroute mail
to another malibox (or external account), so for example e-mail sent to
john at domain1 is delivered normally while mail sent to john at domain2 is
rerouted to user account john2, etc, but this quickly gets messy.

I am currently building a new server and will need to move everything
over when it's ready.  So far, I have debian 4.0, apache2, mysql and
exim4 installed.  I also have spam assassin installed (using procmail),
although it probably needs some tweaking.

I have never used Dovecot. I use webmin to assist with config/management
and see it has a Dovecot plugin so I was thinking about giving it a
look.  I don't have much experience with LDAP either.

My needs will probably steadily increase over the next few years so want
to get it right now... so... LDAP????  What else?

Is this enough of a background?

Regards
Peter 

> Peter wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:47 +0800, Adrian Woodley wrote:
> >> 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/).
> > 
> > 
> > NUTS!!!   I could really use some of this info at them moment...  but a
> > three hour drive (each way) on a week night is just a bit much of a
> > stretch...   
> > 
> > Any notes, recording or VIDEO! would be greatly appreciated...
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> > 
> >> 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
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