On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Selvakumar Rajeswaran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > can anybody guide where to start if I wanna customise the code-base of any > FOSS mail-server. >
By FOSS most of you guys stop with Linux. I am going to create an OpenBSD based mail server soon. We have our own mail daemon called OpenSMTPD. It has been in development and it is not mature yet. Still when you compare with popular industry standard solutions like qmail I think it will excel it. I am going to create a web interface for user management soon. I can use roundcubemail for webmail. I will use dovecot for IMAP and some other thing for POP3. It can send and receive mail through SMTP. I also need to enable submission port on 587. Need SSL certificates for secure access and I need to do something about enabling access from Blackberry like handheld devices. These are the basic set of requirements. Some more basic things include mail monitoring, network monitoring, producing graphs for mail traffic, inspecting mail queues and so on. The advanced features include ability to search mails, achiving and indexing mails, backing it up, mail controls and scanning for keywords and so on. Of course the most important thing these days with mail servers is spam control. I can give that also. I am just building this product and it requires real life exposure to know what all people expect from a mail server. I think bundling FTP server from pure-ftpd is require for my customer at least. Others may also like it. So will file sharing using Samba I suppose. Of course all my products are boxes and this is no different. It will be a plug and play hardware appliance which people can configure using the web interface. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
