Re: Help with email setup for small network (imap)

From: Michael Perry (mperry_at_lnxpowered.org)
Date: 10/07/05 

Date: 7 Oct 2005 02:03:48 GMT

On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:04:42 +0200, Jef Driesen wrote:

> snipped a bit off the top <

> For the imap server I'm trying courier-imap, but all subfolders (Trash,
> Send,...) are displayed inside the inbox. Is there a way to change that
> behaviour? Maybe it's in the documentation, but i didn't looked at it
> very carefully yet, because I'm still working on my postfix setup.
>
> In the future, i would like to add spam and virus filtering. But for
> now, my goal is to have a working setup.

Jef-

It sounds like you have a very good plan overall for a local mail
server. Here is what I do just as a comparison point. I have two
domains to get mail for (one work and one home) that fetchmail grabs for
me. Both are contained in one system fetchmailrc here on regular old
debian unstable. Both go to the same account but what I do after that
is filter mail based on from and to addresses using procmail to other
folders. I am using dovecot imap and postfix here and I also have a
number of home systems that run a variety of things but this one mail
server does all the smtp sending for me here. My ISP and work use
spamassassin to filter off bad stuff so I don't run spamassassin here at
all. I think about 95% of the spam gets trapped at my ISPs mail server.

One of the interesting points is what I do when I travel. Since my mail
is situated completely privately here behind a linksys router and not
exposed whatsoever to the outside, I implemented openvpn on the box so
when I am on the road I just tunnel in over ssl vpn and read my mail
using the same client all the time. This works very well for me and
since the server box also runs samba, I can see network shares on my XP
laptop very easily. On my debian laptop it all works the same too.
Openvpn is very easy to setup for this kind of use and its a very active
and well developed and maintained project.

I personally prefer dovecot imapd on debian since it will use either mbox or
maildir folders very easily. I've used the same approach for some years
now and it works very well from coffee shops, motels, whatever. I also
like postfix quite a bit here. 

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