Jeroen Massar [Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:18:18PM +0000]:
That all depends on what you are used to.
The mini-isp setup:
- Debian unstable
unstable? for production system?
- nsd or pdns as authoritive dns
- pdns as a recursing dns
dns was not really questioned, but I would prefer djbdns (+patches, again) or bind.
- postfix for SMTP + optional STARTTLS + Submission
Submission does what task?
- amavis + clamav & Spamassassin using milter inline in postfix
Seem both to be just 'the standard antivir and antispam' solution
- http://saupdates.openprotect.com/ to update SA.
nice, did not know that.
- dovecot for IMAP-SSL
yep, sounds for me as the best solution. I remember having some problems with courier and performance with Maildirs
= 100k Mails (my inbox).
- squirrelmail or Horde IMP as a webmail frontend or when living on the alpha side: hula (hula-project.org)
Will have a look at hula; squirrel and horde are also both quite 'standard' in their area.
To make it all configureable one can go for a MySQL backend or write scripts which can generate the configs. MySQL (or other SQL backend) is prolly the way to go though.
Don't know whether I really like the idea being dependent of MySQL as backend, but it is at least one possibility to do central administration.
Yet again, it all depends on what you need and what you are used to...
Well, it does not really depend on what I am used to for me (anymore).
I am currently really thinking of giving postfix a try, but it somehow "feels" like stepping backwards.
I am really interested in some experiences of postfix admins and how they handle virtual domains and users.
Nico