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you should check out mail toaster from tnpi - it's open source - built on/against FreeBSD - but a creative soul can pretty easily get it going on Linux (if Linux is that important to you).
http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster/

it's qmail/imap based and scales quite well in my experience.

Backup moved from .Mac to iLife?

I'd like to see them open up the .Mac XMLRPC schema so it'd be easier for users to roll their own .Mac.

Ah heck, lets just list a couple of things I'd like to see (which are completely unrelated to iLife):

• Tabbed chat in iChat
• Single-system image or some type of tightly coupled clustering with NUMA
• Option to share podcast playlist in iTunes (right now, all playlists appear 'cept for the podcast one to users over Bonjour)
• Ability to force iSync to do "Last name, first name" on Motorola v550s (and any other Motorola phone)
• pf instead of ipfw
• OpenVPN support in the Internet Connect.app

Okay, I'm done... for now.

I for one have found that all groupware services can be given to MS Outlook Users over FreeBSD and Mail : Toaster (http://www.tnpi.biz/). The toaster is effectively a mail deamon, LDAP store, support IMAP, POP, SMTP, WebMail, with spam and AV scanning and also is quite well documented. Set it up on a old dual PII server and you will be home free for years.

http://www.tnpi.biz/

I'd hire him if he was interested. Even if you don't go his route he'd be a good candidate to evalaute the purposals if you don't have someone who can do that on staff.

My number one suggestion is hire someone who has built scalable mail systems, and written tons of code to support them: Matt Simerson

You can learn about him, and his mail projects at http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster.shtml

-Chris Knight

Might want to have a chat with Matt Simerson over at http://www.tnpi.biz/

http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster/intro/fe atures.shtml

Good luck!

Might want to have a chat with Matt Simerson over at http://www.tnpi.biz/

http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster/intro/fe atures.shtml

Good luck!

What does SPF have anything to do with this?

If your domain is high-jacked due to a fault with the security of your domain registrar, then yes, you have bigger problems than any anti-spam solution.

This is not the purpose of SPF

If you read spf.pobox.com You can learn that SPF is merely designed to be a system which can eliminate domains being spoofed in the from field of spam messages.

If someone is using one of my domains (logicx.net) to send spam; I can reduce the affect of such a joe-job attack by having a published SPF record; such that receiving systems can verify if the email came from a logicx.net mail server, and reject it appropriately.

SPF and PGP have entirely different authentication approaches. I'd go so far as to say that PGP is more integrity checking.

SPF is a verification that mail for a particular domain came from an appropriate server -- with the goal of disposing false emails (spam, spoofs, etc.)
This is not at all a system to verify users on that particular email system.
This is where PGP steps in -- It is used to verify the integrity of the email -- that it came from a particular user, and came unaltered.

Finally, where has it been verified that their was a breach of their DNS system?

All of the screenshots have now been confirmed to be a firefox situation where when DNS failed it resolved www.google.com.net -- which resolved to the people who own com.net

How about Perl's POD Documentation? I do a lot of hacking of Matt Simerson's Mail::Toaster and Nictool projects, and I find that the Perl POD Documentation system, combined with well-named variables is easy on the eyes, and leads to it being well interpreted by an outsider.

I don't know about 10.4 (and if I did know I wouldn't be allowed to say) but I'm guessing that it's not that much different to the way iSync works now in 10.3.

You can sync between one Mac, your phones, iPods, Palms, etc. without requiring a .Mac subscription. However for Mac to Mac syncing you do need .Mac

However, if you have access to your own server somewhere, it is possible to fake it to look like .Mac Here are some instructions on how to do that.

Note: I haven't actually tried it myself (yet)

Here is William A.Carrel's Patch patch for Apache 2. setup info

Here is William A.Carrel's Patch patch for Apache 2. setup info

Has anyone here setup SPF/SRS with
qmail/Specifically Matt Simmerson's Mail Toaster?

I'm curious if anyone has taken the time to do this, and also if there is demand out there to have Matt make the toaster SPF/SRS compatible.

I think this seems like a good step in the right direction -- doesn't solve all our mail problems, but atleast slows down a lot of the worm-spam phenomenon; I just don't have the time to piece this all together, so I'm hoping to see it in Mail Toaster sometime soon!

Here's a install link to help

TNPI - Mail::Toaster Install

I ask about qmail because so amny people use the taoster here that matt simerson created. Or would it just be another patch me automatically applies.

For people scared of things like a virus protected, spam filtered, web based, high performance, free email server there's the easy route, and that's to use Matt Simmerson's Mail Toaster & FreeBSD Here's a link

• Rock-solid FreeBSD base
• qmail + CourierIMAP + qmailadmin (for easy web-based admin of e-mail accounts) + tie-ins to tarpitting, SpamAssassin or other anti-UCE measures
• Very secure -- Matt has set the whole thing up to be more secure than what most users would configure on their own. E-mail accounts don't have corresponding system accounts, POP-before-SMTP is enabled and a host of other lock-down measures are in place.
• Works with both IMAP and traditional POP services
• Comes with either SquirrelMail or SqWebMail as a default webmail client, although I've gotten it to work with Horde's Imp project as well.

I know you spec'd Gentoo, but this is a great solution backed by an active user community/e-mail list. It's worth a look.