>>>> in the last months, I have been searching for an email system >>>> with some features to make it better for kids, even for younger >>>> ages, and also their parents. We need a few features to >>>> guarantee some security to free messaging among known friends, >>>> but some supervision for unknown addresses. >>> >>> I have a system I wrote for my kids and nephews/nieces. It >>> builds on top of mimedefang with mysql backend. I cannot share >>> the UI for the database manipulations but can give you the >>> database layout and example queries. It used a CMS on Apache that >>> did the ability to whitelist/blacklist, etc. >>> >>> I can package up the snippets under GPLv2 and some documentation >>> if that's a solution you are interested in pursuing. If you >>> are interested in publishing it further, even if 3 people ever >>> use it, I'll be more helpful as I like to surface code I've >>> written for public benefit. >>> >> Please do it, KAM! I would like to see the details of your solution >> in practical ways, both for users and for its administrators. And >> if I make any changes to it, I will make them public somehow, of >> course. >> >> A detail that does not matter much to me: do you have a reason to >> choose GPLv2 instead of GPLv3? I have read two section in the >> article about GPL in Wikipedia: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPLv2#Version_2 and >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPLv3#Version_3 . > > I picked GPLv2 based on the licensing for MIMEDefang to keep the > original author's wishes specifically v2 or later. > > The code is stable and has some nice tricks for SQL from MIMEDefang. > > It's a good starting point but I wouldn't oversell it. I > specifically cannot include the UI but have included example queries > for the quick introduction of a UI and the hooks for the report to > include links to a website for the one click blacklist/whitelist for > parents. >
Kam, I am still a bit puzzled with what I should do. I have seen the README file inside your attachment, and it mentions Sendmail several times. But it does not mention Postfix. Is it possible to install Mimedefang and BeggarMail with Postfix? I have read that Postfix aims to be an alternative to Sendmail. But for me, that never installed either, it is a doubt if this is possible. And if it isn't, the discussion may become offtopic to this list. I have also downloaded Mimedefang and read some of its documentation. It seems very flexible with its install and work directories - which is something I will surely use. Before I play with Mimedefang, should I set up a working mail server with Postfix? Or with Sendmail? Please tell, if you know. You mentioned that you cannot give the source for the interface you use. May I ask: what is the reason for that? No problem, an interface is something that should not be too hard for me. But how exactly you do it? Regards (:
