New Server

Aaron put me in charge of setting up the new server that will replace the server on which this site and about 20 other domains w/ mail and websites, databases, and so on are hosted.

We are using FreeBSD again. 5.5-RELEASE this time.

We are shooting for a combination hardware-refresh and something a bit more scalable for what goes on: virtual users, robust imap and webmail, spam and malware filtering, a bit tighter security, and anything else we want to do.

Today Exim with Spamassassin, openssl tls (using self signed keys), clamav, and Cyrus SASL have all been installed and configured and are working.

:dance:

I’m looking to use Cyrus for imap but the documentation isn’t exactly a series of easy to follow steps.

I’m also looking forward to trying Roundcube webmail. Neato.

This is all putting off the obvious tricky part: migrating user website, SQL databases, mail, home directories, and accounts for some and virtual accounts for others.

Exciting stuff.

Currently fighting:

Cryus-sasl wants to link to db43, Cyrus-imapd wants to link to db3. They need to auth to the same database. Result: imapd signal 11 crashes.

Authentication: Should sasl use its own Berkely DB to store passwords? PAM? And then should exim and cyrus-imap use sasl or mysql? What about the dozen or few virtual users? mysql? mysql linked to pam? :gonk: