advice needed

[dingleberry]

Hi,

Open ended question.

I'd love to set up a web mail server for my users to be able to check their emails online.

Currently, I have freebsd running apache for html/php/perl. I have sendmail installed, and qpopper. I'm looking for a easy (I'm stressing easy), robust, and secure mail server that would interact with those two applications without having to install courier-imap and openldap and ughhh. I'm flustered because I've been wrestling with courier-imap for days now, and getting nowhere. I'm kind of a newbie at administrating a unix box. I feel like installing courier-imap requires years of trial and error and unfortunately I don't have that time right now. So, pop environment mailboxes set up in /var/mail and I'd like for my dad to be able to check his email and send me pics using a web interface... Any ideas? If a change has to be made, that's fine but any pointers on a solution without would be very cool. The ports collection is making me nausious.


Many thanks,
dan

 

[AHinMaine]

I like <a href=&quot;

http://neomail.org>neomail</a>

myself. Very easy, doesn't depend on a lot of external stuff, either. It's actually fairly attractive too.

--
Andy

http://www.nachoz.com

 

[Teccy]

Having not tried neomail, I can only go from my own epxerience, which is with SquirrelMail. Nice and easy to use. Menu driven configuration. However, for best results, you need to use some sort of imap server. I suggest courier-imap.

 

[Morsing]

Dan,

I've just spend weeks going through the same process. I got stuck on both Cyrus and Courier Imap.

I've found a very good solution with SquirrelMail, Dovecot IMAP server and Postfix.

You can use Sendmail instead with no problems if you want to.

Dovecot work out-of-the-box in that environment (Courier can't use mailboxes which Sendmail uses) and is very fast and flexible.

I have used my webmail from work all of this week and it has never been down and is blazingly fast.

Just like you it was the IMAP part of it that I struggled with but Dovecot solved it all. (I sounds like I've written or I am promoting Dovecot doesn't it, but I'm just happy I finally got it to work )

Good luck with it. Cheers


Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

 

[rycamor]

Imap mail servers with advanced systems like SquirrelMail have some advantages. But, if you are already set up with Apache/PHP and sendmail, and want a very simple system, check out

http://webgadgets.com/phpost/

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[theprofessor102]

Hi
I have installed on FreeBSD 5 Openwebmail and its nice and was easy to setup.

http://www.openwebmail.org/

hope that helps.

Jim

 

[dingleberry]

Thanks everyone for your responses. I was able to install neomail, and am using it happily (word?). ONe thing to remember on neomail.conf setup is that if you're installing it on FreeBSD, your encrypted password file is /etc/master.passwd not /etc/passwd

That one got me.


dan