[Dovecot] Newbee, some questions

[Mark Sapiro]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:39:15PM +0000, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
> 
> OK, I just registered with the list, so please be tolerant :-)
> I've been using another MTA for about, oh, I'd say nine years now.


I think we may have some terminology issues here. Dovecot is not a Mail
Transfer Agent (MTA). It is a POP3/IMAP server and can also act as a
Local Delivery Agent (LDA) for an MTA. It can also be used to provide
authentication services to an MTA for SMTP authentication.

 
> Due to reasons beyond me (mainly my clients demanding more for their
> buck / things like webmail etc.), I was forced to start searching for
> (always) open source alternatives. 
> 
> The last MTA was only POP3/SMTP. It does no webmail. It interfaces with
> other software with a lot of pain and difficulty.


Dovecot does not do webmail, but it can provide the IMAP access required
by some web based User Agents (MUA) such as SquirrelMail
<http://squirrelmail.org/> or roundcube <http://roundcube.net/>.


> I'll cut to the chase. I would like to start using some kind of software
> that can do the following :
> 
> 1. Do multiple domain handling.
> 2. Have a centralized user base
> 3. Have a centralized mail repository for each user (like exchange, 
>    only without the admin/maintenance pain that comes with it)
> 4. be able to do IMAP/POP3 and not SMTP/POP3 (or do I need all three
>    of them ?)
> 5. Interface with things like web-based mail software (LAMP ?)
> 
> Am I in the right place ? I would certainly like to think so.
> However, the feedback belongs to you .


I think so. See <http://wiki.dovecot.org/> for more info.

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