Hi, I currently have an old qmail toaster (customized some) setup. I have been wanting to build a new mail server for a while, and just finally got around to doing it. My old system is setup with qmail, vpopmail, squirrelmail, spam assassin, smtpauth, autorespond, qmailadmin, vqadmin, clamav, courier-imap, daemontools, ezmlm, qmail mrtg, ucspi-tcp, qmail-scanner, and tmda. At any rate, I'm getting quite a bit of spam coming through, and it seems that people sending mail to my servers ignore the TMDA, so the user ends up having to look in the pending queue and release messages and such, so I've decided tha TMDA has to go.
Upon looking for what I wanted in a new mail system, I started with the qmail route again (but I wanted to make the install easier), so I looked at qmailrocks, started getting it setup, then ran into problems, and not much help, so I junked it, and installed qmailtoaster (I have to say it was an easy install, and I got everything working and up quickly), however I find myself dizzy and confused when figuring out how everything is working, and configs are scattered throughout the system. One of the things I really want to implement is Dspam, I've been reading alot about it, and decided that I really want to have it on my mail system, and I was unable to really implement it the way I wanted on the qmailtoaster and documentation is slim. So I looked at alternative MTA's and found postfix. It looks like it's exactly what I'm looking for, however I am not sure on what all I need to install to keep the mail system fairly secure and protected. So I started looking through installation documentation for various setup's, and so far, I've decided I wanted: postfix, dovecot (imap and pop3), dspam (of course), virtual users/domains (mysql setup), clamav, sasl (smtpauth), mysql, Mailman, squirrelmail, and some kinda of GUI frontend (I saw postfix admin and I think that will do it). What I'm wondering is if I missed something, is there something vital I missed as far as security/mail processing? Also as far as dspam, do you have any reccomendations, I've looked through documentation on it, however it can be fairly complex. I know I want to have a spam and nospam address for users to forward email to. maybe setup some spam/nospam IMAP folders as well (to be used from squirrelmail as another mechanism). Thanks, Wayne Catterton CCNA Network Engineer Scappoose, OR
