On Monday 21 May 2001 08:52 am, Elizabeth wrote:
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> The one I've been doing most of my testing on is here in my apartment.
> It has the latest and greatest Debian release (I know, I know, not good,
> but it's only a test server. The real server will have the latest
> *stable*). I'm running Postfix as the mailer. If I have this right,
> it's simply an MTA. If I were to have more users I would need an IMAP
> or POP server.
It's not a matter of more users, it's a matter of how anyone (even if it's
just you) is going to access mail. If you are an elm|pine type, you don't
need a POP or IMAP server at all. If you, or anyone else, wants to access the
mail remotely using a standard (Eudora|Netscape|Outlook) mail client, then
you need either IMAP or POP.
>I've heard of Cyrus as an IMAP. It seems pretty
> straight forward, I guess, but I would like a little advice.
> The web site will offer email. I'm not quite sure yet if it'll be
> available for anyone or if the addresses will be set up by admin. In
> either case I am extremely reluctant to have any kind of web user have
> shell access. I don't even want them to have an /etc/passwd entry.
In order to use webmail, you need either an IMAP (best) or POP (works) server
installed. There are several open source web mail clients. I've heard IMP
works well. I'm using Squirrelmail.
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> Postfix most definately does not allow it easily with
> out having to dump all the web-user's email in one account and sorting
> through it will cgi or other scripts. Can someone please point me in
> the direction of some documentation? Or a server recommendation. It
> seems that IMAP would be better to use in this case, but there doesn't
> seem to be a lot of choices. A lot of people seem to be using pop.
> Which one? I've read a little about it, but again...there's nothing
> realy concrete. I don't want anything fancy.
I'm going to put a pitch in for Sendmail. I know that many people don't like
it because of its complexity, and you do need an MTA to go with it. But it's
the most used mail server, there's an O'Reilly book on it, and lots of people
have spent lots of time on it. Also, most of the mail accessories (MTAs,
mailing list managers, etc.) work best with Sendmail, because it's the most
common. It also has gotten ALOT easier to configure over the past two years
or so.
Michelle
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