Hi postmasters, On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:33:52 Mik J wrote: > The only drawback I see is that roundcube is less sexy and less good > than gmail.
Webmail isn't worth bothering with at all. Too complicated. All desktops & mobile phones/tablets have various IMAP clients. For computers, there are IMAP clients such as Thunderbird, Claws, mutt, Mac Mail, MS Outlook, etc. For mobile gadgets, there are the Andriod Gmail app iOS's Mac Mail, Blackberry mail thing, etc, etc -> connect to other IMAP/POP servers. Webmail is dead junk. IMAP and POP are the mail access protocols - use them and save yourself the complicated headache of any HTTP proxy to mail on disk junk. If you keep any user data in SQL or LDAP, have cron scripts to dump the relevant user data to flat files for your MTA to read. rdist(1) those flat files out to your mail farm. SQL and LDAP are too slow and unreliable. A -> B -> C spamd -> MTA (with loads of DNS knobs) -> Dovecot (via LMTP) which writes mail to disk. With a few scripts, that is enough to keep a postmaster productive & busy. The DNS knobs enable such a high accuracy of spam rejection, that no heavy weight spam scanning software is needed at all. Well, that's my almost 20 years experience of mastering multiple OpenBSD mail servers on the hostile Internet. Other people have other ideas. Cheers, -- Craig Skinner | http://linkd.in/yGqkv7
