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 :
- Do multiple domain handling.
- Have a centralized user base
- Have a centralized mail repository for each user (like exchange, only without the admin/maintenance pain that comes with it)
- be able to do IMAP/POP3 and not SMTP/POP3 (or do I need all three of them ?)
- 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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