This is a reproduction of http://www.jm-associates.com/admin/kludge.html that has gone missing in 2009
KLUDGE
v0.5 EMAIL SERVER – A DETAILED HOWTO
AUTHOR
- Chris Berry chris_berry@jm-associates.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Setup – Stage 0 , Hardware
, Operating System , Basic
Setup , Download Software , Security Settings
Setup – Stage 2 , vmailmgr
, Courier-IMAP , Mozilla
, OpenSSL
Setup – Stage 3 , rblsmtpd
, Spamassassin , TMDA
Setup – Stage 4 , TMDA-OFMIPD
, cdb
, Mailfront
Setup – Stage 5 , ClamAV
, qmail-scanner
Setup – Stage 6 , mailquotacheck.sh
, relay-ctrl , djbdns
Setup – Stage 7 , Digital Signatures , Mailing
Lists , Admin Scripts
Setup – Stage 8 , Ezmlm-idx
, dot-qmail Based Groups
business got tired of the inadequacies
of Hotmail and AOL for business email.
I started looking around for a solution, and nobody had all the
features we needed in cost effective form. Given
a low budget (read zero) and demanding reliability requirements, I
turned to open source software. After looking
around I came to the realization that there is no such thing as an open
source “email server” as a complete package.
So even though all I knew about email was how to click the send button,
I set out to piece together a total system
from widely available programs. Here are my requirements in order:
1) Free (as in
beer, though speech is nice too)
2) Rock solid stability
3)
Paranoid security
4) Serious Anti-Spam measures
5)
Maintainability
While these instructions work for me, and I hope they’re helpful for
you, I don’t guarantee anything.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
License.
