Mail Server

[Aaron Kincer]

Guides != Exact instructions.

The point I made was that there were ERRORS (not infrastructural
differences) that made the guide bad.

I refuse to believe that setting up guides for a generalized situation isn't
feasible or reasonable. There just aren't that many wild cards to throw into
the mix of your average company's IT infrastructure.

I'm sure you could write tons of books about a lot of topics in my
suggestion, but really that makes no sense. Pick some general settings and
give some guidance on how to tweak and/or a suggested reading material and
be done with it.

If this is impossible, someone will have to work really hard to explain to
me how you can get packaged solutions like Zimbra to work well.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Michael Zoet <Michael.Zoet at zoet.de> wrote:

>
> > I would also like a really good solid guide on this. I found one out
> there
> > that's halfway decent, but it has errors in it that if you follow it
> > exactly, won't work.
>
> You can never follow guides 100%! In your own network things are barely
> the same as the authors network.
>
> I think it is better to buy some books about the topic!
>
> By the way there are a lot of good guides for setting up mail servers
> already. I read and used them a lot. Most of them cover not all aspects
> but that is impossible! E-mail is in our days the most abused system on
> the Internet! And if you want to have your own mail server, reading and
> learning a lot about e-mail, is the only way to get there. Otherwise you
> will get into trouble, if your system is in production use.
>
> >
> > My basic idea of what should be in it:
> >
> > POP, IMAP
> > Spam/AV
> > Webmail (with users able to reset their own passwords)
> > User/Distribution list creation
> > Security Guidance
> > Backups/DR
>
> I'm not sure if you really mean this!? Even about Spam you can write tons
> of books...
>
> >
> > If the setup is vastly different depending on the number of users, then I
> > would suggest creating guides for user levels. Have one for less than 100
> > users, 101 - 500, etc.
> >
>
> The user number is not that much important for a working setup. You can
> have a really complex setup with only 5 users or relatively easy setup
> with 1000 or more users. And everything between. For complex setups you
> should have aleady the needed knowledge and no need for documentation at
> all. Just the documentation for reference.
>
> If you have a user number of 20 or more users, you should be able to make
> your own decisions. It is really a bad idea to setup a reliable mail
> server for 20 or more users, when you follow some guide and have no
> knowledge about it.
>
>
> Michael
>
>
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