Mailservers are creepy
Well, courier sometimes is. To gt rid of a lot of spam, I disabled the catch-all address for most of my domains, which is a good thing. However,this also took out the rss feed, which is bad. Isn’t there an smtp/imap combination out there that makes it *easy* to do aliases and real mailaccounts defined in mysql and addresses that forward to an application (preferably also configured in mysql)?
Hooking spamassassin and clamav into courier also wasn’t the easiest, so I should just get rid of it and use postfix I guess. I don’t like configuring postfix though.
I’m not entirely sure it’s completely what you want, but you could have a look at Dovecot, http://www.dovecot.org/ , which appears to me to be a good alternative. It’s on my list to check it out, so I have no personal experience with it.
Hi,
I have very, very good experience with exim in that regard. I have configured a system capable of handling multiple sites with multiple assigned domains, unlimited virtual users and unlimited aliases, everything using a MySQL-Database for account storage.
The whole delivery-process works in theory without spawning an external process, though I have weakened that rule over time as SpamAssassin and DSPAM where added.
Mail read-access is done via courier IMAPd and a custom-written authdaemon (my skills in C are not good enough and stock authdeamon’s SQL support is to basic for the schema I had in mind).
The setup works perfectly for more than 4 years now and handles all mail needs of me and my company.
I have documented the whole configuration, but unfortunately, the documentation is in german, so it won’t be of much use to you. Someone on the internet picked up my ideas and founded XAMS (http://www.xams.org) which is not longer in development, but still works and can be used as no components of XAMS itself are security relevant and the configuration files used by XAMS work with current versions of Exim and Courier.
Take your time to learn the exim configuration file. While much, much easier to handle than sendmail, it’s at least as powerful - if not more.
Philip
Philip, german documentation is not a problem, I’m not fluent at german but understand enough of it :) Can you give me a link please?
You need to look at and install Postfixadmin. It does everything you require - and more.