<div dir="ltr">Budget?<div><br></div><div>If you want to do BSD, it seems like running postfix and courier-imap on some COTS hardware would be a straightforward answer. There are a number of gui tools that can help manage them, but my setups are simple enough that I just do it by hand. It's powerful enough to handle real volumes of mail on reasonable hardware.</div><div><br></div><div>There are also a number of appliances that can play this role. I really like Synology for this sort of thing, though I've never used their mail server piece: <a href="https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/all_in_one_server">https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/all_in_one_server</a></div><div><br></div><div>Really though, doing mail well is tricky enough now that it probably pays to use a hosted service. If your goal is really a "<span style="font-size:12.8px">generally ignorable system that just works", this is far and away the most cost effective route to that goal. The economies of scale and concentration of expertise at a provider just can't be beat. If there are other concerns of course that calculus changes.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">QH</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Yaverot <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Yaverot@computermail.net" target="_blank">Yaverot@computermail.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">How possible is this? I've been trying to help a friend who needs to replace the Mac server he set up in 2003 or so. (And is well unsupported now, with no upgrade path).<br>
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Despite using multiple guides on the net, getting the software installed is a pain, the config files always seam to be somewhere else, and even after finally getting it setup, the server can only email to itself.<br>
Our most recent attempt was with iRedMail.<br>
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So the time has come to asking you enthusiasts on which expert to pay to get us setup and once again have a generally ignorable system that just works.<br>
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He's willing to try hosted email, as a temporary solution, pricing would be per domain not per user. Actual volume of email I don't know at this time. Local is required, the Denver-Boulder area.<br>
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He needs to be able to add (or I assume remove) users/email addresses at will, with some type of GUI interface (web okay).<br>
He wants to add an additional domain or two.<br>
SSH access so that backup is an easy "ZFS send" command. Which is a preference for FreeBSD over other options. Although being set as a cron on the send side is preferred over a cron pull from the backup location.<br>
Webmail is unnecessary. IMAP is required.<br>
Having the mail server within its own VM making moving it in the future easier, is a plus.<br>
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We already have a location with port 25 unblocked, that had been working fine for years until email providers started up-ing their security near the beginning of the year (and now quota limit warnings from a nearly-full drive). He has control over the DNS records and can move the MX as needed.<br>
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All the above, and I feel I'm missing something obvious.<br>
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