Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-26 Thread The_Ace
Since this is for a completely windows based system, why not use a windows based mail server like hmailserver ? it supports several database types (mysql,mssql) so you can manage the user base through your system. On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Greg Deward skrev den 20

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Benny Pedersen
Greg Deward skrev den 2013-05-21 20:12: NEWBIE WARNING: I have never used Postfix and am not a Linux guru. Please be gentile. +1 http://www.postfix.org/addon.html (Run/Configuration/Queue/User management) -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, s

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/21/2013 1:28 PM, Greg Deward wrote: > Sorry... should have specified... cannot integrate with AD or the Microsoft > environment. It's a bit ironic that you're summarily eliminating the one interface you already know very well, which would work perfectly for you. I'd guess this is due to..

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Serge Fonville
A few challenges then I suspect. Postfix does SMTP, you need a different service for IMAP It is likely easier (to maintain) a full solution (i.e. zarafa, zimbra) instead of a combination of services (postfix/dovecot) The point you make about low maintenance complicates things especially since ther

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Evans
On 5/21/2013 2:57 PM, Brian Evans wrote: Installing Postfix alone will not let you read the mail. You need an IMAP/POP3 client to read remotely which Postfix does not provide. I mean IMAP/POP3 server such as courier, dovecot, etc.

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 02:12:18PM -0400, Greg Deward wrote: > Is there an existing .NET library (DLL, etc.) for controlling > Postfix? No. But people use webmin or similar to control their Unix systems with Postfix as one of the managed components. > More specifically, I have a need for creati

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Evans
On 5/21/2013 2:49 PM, Greg Deward wrote: In our conversations, the overall goal was to have a stand-alone mail server running Ubuntu and whatever mail packages are installed in [as close to default as possible] configuration. The server should remain isolated and not be connected to any other

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Greg Deward
In our conversations, the overall goal was to have a stand-alone mail server running Ubuntu and whatever mail packages are installed in [as close to default as possible] configuration. The server should remain isolated and not be connected to any other box or resource. We would call into it pr

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Serge Fonville
Ah, ok. Well you can run OpenLDAP (for example) as a backend in the same way you could use AD. Postfix can use multiple backends depending on your needs. What requirements do you have? Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet, Serge Fonville http://www.sergefonville.nl Convince Microsoft! They

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Greg Deward
Sorry... should have specified... cannot integrate with AD or the Microsoft environment. This needs to remain entirely stand-alone. This means our member base will be stored in the application's database and we will need to call out to Postfix to manually perform account provisioning and the l

Re: Advice Needed / .NET Postfix Control

2013-05-21 Thread Serge Fonville
Hi, >From your mail it seems you desire a backend that can handle all that, you should be able to setup postfix to retrieve its users from AD. HTH Kind regards/met vriendelijke groet, Serge Fonville http://www.sergefonville.nl Convince Microsoft! They need to add TRUNCATE PARTITION in SQL Ser