email solution?

[inetd]

I want to setup a linux mail server with Redhat 9. It should act as IMAP, SMTP, POP3 server. It should also provide webmail feature. The problem is that the server should be capalbe of handling virtual domains.

I prefer using postfix for MTA. Any suggestion for IMAP, POP3 and Webmail?

Thanks.

 

[lullysing]

Sendmail can do smtp and pop3. I don't know about postfix ( haven't read the doco )and i would have to look at all the capabilities of the software and how it interacts before i could give you advice about it.

May i suggest looking for some kind of HOWTO on the matter on the linux documentation project?
Dave

 

[danielhozac]

Sendmail can do smtp and pop3.
Since when? I should update my Sendmail version, if it allows me to get rid of the POP3 server.

//Daniel

 

[aixmurderer]

Courier MTA is said to do most of it, not sure of the virtual domains:

http://www.courier-mta.org/

They state you can use parts of it to plug in with e.g Postfix (the webmail server and IMAP server).

As for pop3 daemons, there are various ones like nu-pop and qpopper, all depending on if you want to use maildirs or mailboxes.


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[rzs0502]

If you install RedHat 9, the POP3/POP3S & IMAP daemons are included.
This will allow users to connected to the Unix Mail Subsystem using regular mail clients.
Configuration of sendmail will provide for you virtual domains.
As for WebMail, have a look at SquirrelMail.

 

[bluegroper]

RH prolly comes with postfix and uw-imap (which also handles pop3).
Simple as.

 

[Vince0000]

I'm new as heck so don't read too much into this but this is what I did...

- Installed and configured Sendmail
- Configured the ipop3 dameon that was installed with sendmail... (Imap was installed also but never did anything with it)
* Gave me a working sendmail server with pop3 mail.
- With Virtual Domains I "READ" that you can use the virtusertable to send mail from one server to another to then be delivered by the mailhub to the actual local user.
I configured my Local-Host-Names file to host mail for XYZ.Mycompany.com for example so that is my mail hub's local mail... and I masquerade all outgoing mail as mycompany.com
(We get our mail from the ISP to a exchange server so i'm now looking into how to get exchange to send certain mail to my mailhub and certain mail to stay local on the exchange server... Not sure if there is some virtual user setting in exchange like linux or not. maybe I have to setup a linux mailhub there using virtusertables and toss mail to each server?)
- Then I wanted a Local Postoffice Address List so I looked up the Openldap addition... (be aware that this needed some configuration as the berkley database files had to be ver 4.1.25 and I had to manually tell the config were the files were in order to install openldap but after all that grief the ldap server is working also... (But I have a question with it...
Can it Display a local Postoffice address list automatically or is it only a search tool to resolve addresses?)

Hope that helps someone but like I said I'm new and experimenting so only use it as info.

Thanks,
Vince

 

[creativedr]

Mmm... maybe you can use SocketMail... it works on Linux... it has SMTP daemon or you can integrate with Sendmail/Qmail/Postfix, it also have POP3 server. You can host unlimited domain with lots of admin functionalities.

Check it out

http://www.socketmail.com

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Khairul

http://www.SocketMail.com

 

[ady2k]

Postfix can support pop3, imap and webmail.
And Postfix configuration is more simple than sendmail.
I felt sendmail configuration was complicated.
so I prefer Postfix....