[Zope-PTK] Seeking advice on mail server setup

[Dan L. Pierson]

Itai Tavor <itai@optusnet.com.au> writes:

> As a first step I'd like to set up mail accounts for all the members. I
> thought about simply creating Linux accounts for everyone, but I think it
> would be best to avoid doing that, both for security and ease of management
> reasons. So I'm looking for a way to set up these accounts, and for a mail
> server to set them up on, that will support my long term feature
> requirements. BTW, this will be set up on a RedHat Linux system.
> 
> 
> These requirements are:
> 
> - Read and compose mail inside the portal
> - POP access from outside the portal
> - Create/edit/delete mail server accounts from inside the portal
> - Sync mail server POP passwords to portal member passwords
> - Place restrictions on outgoing mail by message size, target address, etc.
> - Filter incoming mail
> 
> Any suggestions?

You might look at qmail with vmailmgr, I think it provides the support
you want, though you will need some external methods that execute
commands in the context of a specific normal user (who could probably
be the Zope user).  We're using qmail here, but our current main
server works with IMAP and doesn't use vmailmgr -- we're looking at
a qmail/pop/vmailmgr config for another server once someone has time
to do it.

Dan Pierson