Suggestions for SOHO email service

[Bill Mullen]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:29:14 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:

> So, it's just a matter of selecting an MX, SMTP, (optional) web  
> interface, and spam filtering. Gee, is that all? This could be an  
> education experience.

FWIW, here's what I run here to handle the mail:

SMTP server:	Postfix
Webmail:	SquirrelMail (w/ Apache), WAN logins resticted to SSL-only
Filtering:	Amavisd-new, which calls SpamAssassin and ClamAV
Access:		UW-IMAP, providing POP3 and IMAP (SSL forced when from WAN)
Consolidation:	Fetchmail

I have a FQDN from no-ip.com, and have pointed the MX record for the
domain at that. It is updated automatically on those rare occasions when
the IP address changes by a setting on my SmoothWall firewall box. The
TCP ports forwarded from the WAN to the mail server are 25, 993 and 995;
that takes care of inbound SMTP, SecureIMAP, and SecurePOP3 (the Apache
server runs on a different internal system). Postfix relays all of the
outbound mail via the ISP's SMTP server, and for inbound mail, I have it
identifying itself to other systems by using the no-ip.com FQDN, rather
than the actual hostname of the system on which it runs. Fetchmail pulls
mail in from other servers for several users and delivers it to Postfix.

If any further details of the setup here would be useful to you, I'd be
happy to either post them here, or to mail them to you.

HTH!

-- 
Bill Mullen
RLU #270075