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. So, I would like recommendations for a mailserver to run on ubuntu. Ideally I'd like it to be: 1. Easy to setup 2. Not require a user to be created for each email address. 3. Be able to create email addresses for individual domains 4. Web interface 5. Work with mailman 6. Support pop/imap 7. Support email forwarding. Any suggestions? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer@gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer
On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:57:31 +0000 Paul Grenyer <paul.grenyer@gmail.com> allegedly 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.
So, I would like recommendations for a mailserver to run on ubuntu. Ideally I'd like it to be:
1. Easy to setup 2. Not require a user to be created for each email address. 3. Be able to create email addresses for individual domains 4. Web interface 5. Work with mailman 6. Support pop/imap 7. Support email forwarding.
Any suggestions?
Hi Paul Yep - postfix. I find that it is realtively easy to setup. In fact, out of the box it meets most requirements without much twiddling. To answer your points: You don't need a system user for each email address. Use virtual mail addressing and set the users in a mysql database. I use the wonderful "postfixadmin" application to handle all my domains amd virtual mail users. postfixadmin uses a web interface. if you want a web interface to your email, then look at squirrelmail - but really pop or imap would be better. postfix works well with mailman and when coupled with dovecot, it handles pops and imap with ease. I actually have some "howtos" on my blog which may help (see for example http://baldric.net/mailman-with-postfix/ but note that I wrote that before I started using postfixadmin and mysql so the virtual maps info is out of date.) I also wrote about postfixadmin at http://baldric.net/2010/01/23/life-is-too-short-to-use-horde/ if you have specific questions in your configuration, or you want some config tips for your main.cf or dovecot config files, let me know. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- blog: baldric.net fingerprint: E8D2 8882 F7AE DEB7 B2AA 9407 B9EA 82CC 1092 7423 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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:
1. Easy to setup 2. Not require a user to be created for each email address. 3. Be able to create email addresses for individual domains 4. Web interface 5. Work with mailman 6. Support pop/imap 7. 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. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.winder@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: russel@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 07:28 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: [...]
Any suggestions?
Postfix.
Sorry there should have been a /Dovecot on there, no Dovecot, no IMAPS. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.winder@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: russel@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 08:57:31PM +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
In my experience postfix is the easiest to set up, exim4 is a little more difficult and sendmail needs a two inch thick book.
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 all my 'aliasing' if you like set up outside of the postfix set up, e.g. on my domain isbd.co.uk (hosted at TsoHost) I have several addresses all of which are forwarded to chris@isbd.co.uk so my postfix server here on my home machine just has to receive E-Mail for chris@isbd.co.uk.
So, I would like recommendations for a mailserver to run on ubuntu. Ideally I'd like it to be:
1. Easy to setup 2. Not require a user to be created for each email address. 3. Be able to create email addresses for individual domains 4. Web interface 5. Work with mailman 6. Support pop/imap 7. Support email forwarding.
I think you're asking for several separate things! :-) Postfix is an SMTP server (as are exim4 and sendmail) as well as being an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). POP and IMAP4 servers are totally different beasts doing a different job. -- Chris Green
On 24/03/2012 20:57, 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.
So, I would like recommendations for a mailserver to run on ubuntu. Ideally I'd like it to be:
1. Easy to setup 2. Not require a user to be created for each email address. 3. Be able to create email addresses for individual domains 4. Web interface 5. Work with mailman 6. Support pop/imap 7. Support email forwarding.
Any suggestions?
Yes, for the MTA, I recommend postfix. It is a doddle to set-up, even easier to manage, and there's a ton of help out there if you care to look for it. As previously suggested, virtual accounts in a mysql database are the way to go, easily managed by either of the postfix tools, or as we do here, phpmyadmin and bash scripts. For the LTA and authentication, I recommend courier and IMAP (a requirement for webmail). For web mail, I highly recommend roundcube which is immeasurably better than squirrelmail, and handles virtual domains very well, allowing one to use apache virtual hosting and per-domain branding to "hide" the back-end primary domain. For auto-responders and forwarding, I recommend maildrop, which integrates with postfix and courier well, but postfix can manage that itself, and the mysql database back-end allows a great deal of flexibility as to where email goes. If you need help, most of us here can do this stuff, and I work for beer vouchers! Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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