jaedus
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email virtual domain + spam filter solution
Ok, so I'm trying to provide a good email server solution.
The things I need/want are virtual domain hosting, spamfiltering, and the ability to redirect spam to a "found spam" folder of sorts.
Everything I've found so far solves some of the problems but sucks in other regards.
Sendmail, easy setup, easy to maintain, pure crap for virtual domain hosting, I really would like joe@domain1.com and joe@domain2.com to both be able to use their username as a login, otherwise the more virtual domains I get, the more stupid my accounts are going to look.
Qmail solved that problem nicely with vpopmail. Problem being though that with qmail I lost the support for that lovely program MailScanner that worked so well with sendmail. yes I know there's qmail-scanners but so far it reall really does seem weaker and harder to configure and just royally a pain to setup up, let alone for user-specific spam filtering settings.
So I'm hoping that some people that actually run ISPs and the such will read this and tell me what works best for them, because I really don't know what to do from here.
I know this is noobish but I've backed myself into a corner on this one promising more than I could deliver, I'm tempted just to use sendmail, mailscanner, and usernames like userdomain@domain.com user2domain2@domain.com but I really don't want to have to.
The things I need/want are virtual domain hosting, spamfiltering, and the ability to redirect spam to a "found spam" folder of sorts.
Everything I've found so far solves some of the problems but sucks in other regards.
Sendmail, easy setup, easy to maintain, pure crap for virtual domain hosting, I really would like joe@domain1.com and joe@domain2.com to both be able to use their username as a login, otherwise the more virtual domains I get, the more stupid my accounts are going to look.
Qmail solved that problem nicely with vpopmail. Problem being though that with qmail I lost the support for that lovely program MailScanner that worked so well with sendmail. yes I know there's qmail-scanners but so far it reall really does seem weaker and harder to configure and just royally a pain to setup up, let alone for user-specific spam filtering settings.
So I'm hoping that some people that actually run ISPs and the such will read this and tell me what works best for them, because I really don't know what to do from here.
I know this is noobish but I've backed myself into a corner on this one promising more than I could deliver, I'm tempted just to use sendmail, mailscanner, and usernames like userdomain@domain.com user2domain2@domain.com but I really don't want to have to.
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Sendmail+MailScanner+Cyrus
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These both look good, I'm going to try a bit of both and come back with which worked the best. I should know within a day or two here. Thanks :)
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These were both good answers but I went down the path of postfix so that's the one. I found a really nice tutorial after reading that one u linked to, it's even easier i think, for me anyway:
http://kirb.insanegenius.net/postfix.html
Now i'm getting strange errors like this
hercules postfix/virtual[4471]: B88ED1ABAAD: to=<blahblahblah@blahblahb
that's not the real email add, or domain, obviously, but the error othewise is cut and paster from maillog. I think my clue is the fact that there's 3 / at the begginning of the dir, if i change the:
virtual_mailbox_base=/
to
virtual_mailbox_base=/blah
in main.cf i get a correspoding error with /blah/ at the start and what not, I'm just not familiar enough with any of this yet to track down my problem, so i'm just going to post here again, this experts exchange thing rocks. Thanks again guys, I appreciate it.
http://kirb.insanegenius.net/postfix.html
Now i'm getting strange errors like this
hercules postfix/virtual[4471]: B88ED1ABAAD: to=<blahblahblah@blahblahb
that's not the real email add, or domain, obviously, but the error othewise is cut and paster from maillog. I think my clue is the fact that there's 3 / at the begginning of the dir, if i change the:
virtual_mailbox_base=/
to
virtual_mailbox_base=/blah
in main.cf i get a correspoding error with /blah/ at the start and what not, I'm just not familiar enough with any of this yet to track down my problem, so i'm just going to post here again, this experts exchange thing rocks. Thanks again guys, I appreciate it.
I personally like qmail and its setup. Here is a great tutorial installing qmail with virus and spam controls for virtual domains.
jaedus: the problem is that you haven't permissons to create the maildir.
How are the users maildirs entered in the database ?
From the howto I pasted they look likt this:
/path/to/mailbox/domain.tl
this MUST end with a "/" otherwise it's treated as a file.
and in postfix I also have the setting "home_mailbox =" set to: "home_mailbox = .maildir/"
This might be the problem with your current setup.
sorry for the really delayed answer.
//troopern
How are the users maildirs entered in the database ?
From the howto I pasted they look likt this:
/path/to/mailbox/domain.tl
this MUST end with a "/" otherwise it's treated as a file.
and in postfix I also have the setting "home_mailbox =" set to: "home_mailbox = .maildir/"
This might be the problem with your current setup.
sorry for the really delayed answer.
//troopern
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haha, yeah I think that actually was it, sure can't remember though ;) I've since done the whole postfix + mysql etc setup on 4 different servers and have documented it for myself. Lovely setup really, does the trick nicely, and I love being able to manage part of it in mysqladmin through a web interface. I've now begun to use plesk for some of my other servers. it's really too bad it relies on qmail, I love postfix now. Thanks for the help though :)
jaedus: In time I'm going to make a PHP page that manages the users in the MySQL database. It will be alot easier than using phpmyadmin =).
I might be able to share it with you too, but then I guess I need to make some modifications since you don't used the same howto as I did.
I might be able to share it with you too, but then I guess I need to make some modifications since you don't used the same howto as I did.