Mail Server

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-11-13 15:55, Pliasas Vasilis 10463 <vplia at otenet.gr> wrote:
> Thelw na stisw enan mail server me skopo tin anaptiksi enos webmail
> client gia proswpiki mou xrisi. Exw ipopsin mou ton courier kai ton
> Cyrus-IMAP.

Se kalo dromo eisai.  Alla exeis mono to miso kommati tou setup sto
myalo sou.  Enas mail server exei duo kyria merh:

	- Ena mail transfer agent (MTA).
	- Ena mail access method.

1. To proto dexetai e-mail apo to diktyo, kai me kapoio ``magiko
tropo'' apofasizei se poio ``mailbox'' na ta apo8hkeusei.  To mailbox
mporei na einai otidhpote apo ena aplo, flat, UNIX mbox format arxeio
mexri mia seira apo table entries se mia SQL database.

Sinithos gia auto to skopo tha deis na xrhsimopoiountai programmata
opws Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, qmail, se sunduasmo me opoiodhpote apo
mia terastia gkama mikroterwn ergaleiwn.  Psakse stis home pages[1]
twn MTA pou eipa prin kai fusika sto documentation tou leitourgikou
sou, gia na deis poio apo auta uposthrizetai kala h s' aresei pio polu
apo ola.

[1] http://www.sendmail.org/ , http://www.exim.org/ ,
    http://www.postfix.org/ , http://www.qmail.org/

2. To deutero (auto pou exeis ki esu sto nou sou) einai pos meta
kapoios xrhsths tha mporesei na pistopoihsei thn taytothta tou kai na
prospelasei ta minimata enos sugkekrimenou mailbox.

Ki edo einai polles oi epiloges, gi auto den exei nohma na sou po ego
"bale auto".  Psakse sto documentation tou courier pop3/imap server
kai sto documentation tou cyrus.  Einai oi duo pio dhmofileis.  Auto
de shmainei pos oloi oi alloi, p.x. o qpopper, den einai kaloi.

Dokimase na kaneis ena kalo psaksimo kai sto Freshmeat:

	http://freshmeat.net/

Mia allh kalh idea otan psaxneis plhrofories gia ola ta programmata ta
sxetika me mail einai na anoigeis ena browser st selida twn Ports tou
FreeBSD [ http://www.freebsd.org/ports.html ].  H kathgoria mail/ exei
ena soro programmata kai ta links stis selides tous einai polu xrhsima ;-)

> Poios einai kaliteros?  Pion na protimisw?  Giati na protimisw afton kai oxi
> ton allon?

Auto eksartatai para polu apo to eidos ths efarmoghs pou theleis ki
apo ena karo alla pragmata.

- Giorgos