> I'm building a linux server that has to be email server for a domain. It
> has to do SMTP, POP and/or IMAP.I'm looking for some web based tools to
> administer these services. And we are planning to give web based email
> access to clients (squirrel mail???), so is there a free tool for Linux
> that will let us give web based email access to clients?
>
> All I want is programs for SMTP, POP, IMAP and for managing these services
> ?? I know a few but just want to get opinion and choice of folks here. And
> are there any anti-spam and anti-virus s/w that I can install on this
> server (free or commercial) -- need good programs?? Does sendmail come
> with one??
>
> And is there a tool (something like a control panel) that when we give
> access to our clients, they can add users (email users) to the domains
> that we are hosting? Please suggest me appropriate tools (free or
> commercial)
>
> Thanks
>

I personally like postfix and qmail. But those are only the MTA part of
it. (SMTP) For POP3, POP3S, IMAP and IMAPS I choose to use dovecot these
days due to it's mbox caching and indexing. Makes regular mbox files go
fast where you usually needed to use maildir format. With shell access,
cyrus and whatnot doesn't really work with my configruation nor would I
use uw stuff anymore. I use procmail for delivery to local unix boxes. And
I have squirrelmail and openwebmail setup for web access. For account
control I use usermin. That'll give em frontends to procmail and
spamassassin as well as another choice in webmail access, apache, mysql,
etc, etc. However that doesn't give them the option to setup alias's or
additional email addresses without 3rd party plugins. For virus checking I
like clamav and amavisd-new for my MTA.

All this is kind of a barrage of applications you use together to get the
whole thing going. I kind of like setting stuff like this up on debian
since it is easy to apt-get install bla bla bla. All applications I like
to use are in the sarge and sid repo's and it is easy to maintain over
vast amounts of time. It might be a little confusing to configure though.

-Mike

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