ijez wrote:
Hi,
I need to setup a new mail server and before I got my feet wet or losing in the configurations jungle, I really need some advice from the gurus here for what the best software to used for the mailserver base on CentOS 4.x setup.
The objective is, the mailserver will be easy to setup, maintained and have some
- database backend for storing user info ( mysql? )
- spam and antivirus filtering
- webbase user administrations
- Provide smtp,smtps,pop3,pop3s,imap,imaps service
Any pointer to a good documentations, how-to or links base on CentOS 4.x setup is really appreciates.
Personally, for such a setup - I'd go with postfix-mysql + cyrusimapd, and for webadmin you can throw in web-cyradm. That will let you manage virtual users / domains / forwards / autoreplies etc
One of the most recommended setup's to combat spam, cheaply, seems to be implementing greylisting within postfix. In most cases that reduced your spam intake by almost 98% without any extra cost on cpu or bandwidth.
For antivirus filtering take a look at MailScanner ( http://mailscanner.info/ ) it integrates well into CentOS3 or 4. And can work with most antivirus scanners that work on Linux.
Johnny has a couple of excellent guides on his website at http://www.hughesjr.com/
- K