On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 09:53 +0200, Gerhard Waldemair wrote:

Am 23.06.2010 um 09:47 schrieb Marcus Linnenkohl:

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Hello,

I'm new here, and I'm from Germany, so please be patient with me because my English is not so good ;)

I am searching for a Step-to-Step Guide to first-configure Dovecot.

I want to create virtual Users wich can logon to my Server to a Webinterface to call theire mails.

I think IMAP is the right protokoll but it should be safe, so i think IMAPs is better.

Unfortunately I am not familiar with Dovecot, so I need your help.

Yours sincerely

Marcus

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Hi Marcus,

you can find a Debian Lenny based tutorial for what you are searching for:

http://workaround.org/ispmail/lenny

Gerhard

And if you don't use debian, let us know what OS, I can help with Slackware, which means it can be applied to any *nix OS if your comfortable with using source packages, which will likely be far more this century than anything debian offers :)

On 2010-06-23 11:03 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:

Are you running other services on your server, or will it be dedicated to email? If the later, you might want to look into http://qmailtoaster.com/.

Bad advice imo. QMail is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. :)

Seriously thought, the only person who should be using qmail is someone who has been using it forever and knows it inside and out - and I would *still* argue that they should just admit the truth and move on.

Do yourself a favor and don't go down that road. The best two open source MTA's are postfix and Exim, so you should be using one of them unless there is a compelling reason to use something else. I personally prefer postfix, but only because that's all I've ever used. I've heard nothing but good things about Exim, so you wouldn't be going wrong either way.

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Best regards,

Charles