[ILUG] IMAP server

[Niall Brady]

brief, in a hurry!

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:12:19 BST, Matthew French said:
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>1. An auto-reply facility: There is no standard IMAP way to do this, but my

IMP might be able to do that, as far as I remember!  You might need
recent CVS though...

>2. They want MIMEsweeper, but only so that they can reject .exe, .bat, and
>all the other usual suspects. Am I correct that procmail can do this?

Yup.  A google search should turn up some scripts...

>3. They want a spam filter. I am not sure what they have been told, but I
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>that SpamAssasin fits the role. Unfortunately I have never used it, so I

Easy peasy... very nice piece of software, and there's a PHP/SQL
thingy for controlling it now...

>4. They want a facility to access IMAP mail from home. My thinking is IMAP

Webmail?  Saves you the hassle...

>5. They might want to impose quotas. I have never had to use Linux
>filesystem quotas, and my problem is that it looks fairly complicated to
>administer. Again, a web front end should help... The alternative is to have
>a cron-job run nightly and check the size of the mailbox and mail warnings
>as appropriate.

Has to be done in the background, but you might be able to put something
together from

	https://mail.ph.utexas.edu/patches/wu-imap-quotas/

Hopefully you'll be using a different IMAP server, so won't have to do
it the nasty way he did ;-)

>I would also like to be able to archive old mails (say > 3 months) and
>automatically clear out messages marked for deletion. Are there toolkits
>available that would let me script these tasks?

Could be added as a maintenance task to IMP?

>Does anyone know of a generic web frontend for using and administering
>common IMAP servers, such as the UW and Cyrus varieties. A webmail frontend
>would also be a useful selling point.

For a webmail frontend, Horde[1]/IMP[2] is probably the best you can go for

>And of course there is the religious issue: which IMAP server? :) UW is
>simple to set up but I don't know if it will support 40+ users? Cyrus is
>more complicated to administer and I have had problems with Courier that
>were small but put me off trying it further. There is also a product called
>DBMail (http://www.dbmail.org) which looks like an interesting possibility -
>it uses MySQL as the message store.

cyrus or courier imap might be a reasonable alternative...

-- 
	Niall

[1] http://www.horde.org/
[2] http://www.horde.org/imp/