[vox-tech] Mail server advice

Rod Roark vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:45:55 -0800


On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 11:34 AM, speck@blkmtn.org wrote:

> Requirements
> IMAP (I access from home and work so I like leaving things on the 
> server)

Courier IMAP works well for me.  I tried Cyrus but it has too many 
idiosyncrasies for me, and it's really designed to run on a dedicated 
machine.

> Web mail

Try Squirrelmail.

> Spam Filtering.

Postfix has good UCE controls.  See ordb.org also.

> Backup

No special recommendations, other than an extra hard drive for backups 
is fast and cheap.

> The ability to act as a Secondary mail server for another domain.

Postfix and most other mail servers have no problem with this.

> List Server compatibilty(Probably Mailman)

That's what I use.

> Can handle multiple domains (I'll be hosting my mail and a friends)

Any reasonable mail server can do this.

> Nice to have:  User Calenders

Webcal is the best open source web calendar I've seen.

-- Rod
    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/