Paul,
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 20:57 +0000, Paul Grenyer wrote:
Hi all
I want to create an email server so that I can send and receive email for a number of my domains. I've tried using postfix, but it's a pig to setup and it appears I need to have a user account on the server for every email address and I can't restrict one user to only one domain. e.g. if I create a user called paul and I have two domains, I get paul@domain1 and paul@domain2. Of course this could be my misunderstanding.
I have no problem with Postfix and the account per account model, it works fine for me. Why is this a show stopper for you?
So, I would like recommendations for a mailserver to run on ubuntu. Ideally I'd like it to be:
- Easy to setup
- Not require a user to be created for each email address.
- Be able to create email addresses for individual domains
- Web interface
- Work with mailman
- Support pop/imap
- Support email forwarding.
Any suggestions?
Postfix.
Clearly it fails on 4 (but there is Squirrelmail I guess, but I have never tried it, I just stick with IMAPS). I have never use Mailman so have no idea if it works with Postfix.
On reflection you can almost certainly use a combination of the Postfix virtual file and Maildrop (programming using the .mailfilter file) to have the mail for different addresses all delivered to the same account but put into different mailfolders, In principle very straightforward.
Postfix isn't a pig to set up in my experience, I am surprised it has appeared to be for you.
Alternative is Exim4 (which is the Debian default these days). I have no experience of using it as a server only setting it up to do auto forwarding to a Postfix server.