I posted a new topic here:

- Help needed: Migrate iRedMail to FreeBSD or other Distros
  http://www.iredmail.org/forum/topic425- … stros.html

Please help us if you are interesting in migrating iRedMail to FreeBSD.

thanks allot for the hard work i really cant wait for the FreeBSD support my favorite OS

We need your help to make iRedMail work on FreeBSD. I will post a new topic to discuss this.

0.5.1 definitely coming tomorrow? or shouldn't I bother and install 0.5.0 today?

I think you can use 0.50 install and update to 0.51, because the 0.51 just fix some bug.

how about a upgrade to dovecot 1.2.x? it is much more rfc compliant than 1.1.x and the new sieve extension is much more powerfull. upgrade isn't also a hard thing only minor changes in configuration files.

That would be great if users can contribute documents.

We have to release admin panel first, and waiting for dovecot-1.2.x to be more stable.

It would be a great thing though (You asked for suggestions )!

Hope it will be added in 0.2-release.

Check this post:
http://www.iredmail.org/forum/topic216- … oblem.html

afaik, Mailing Lists are possible using the LDAP backend. I figure the admin panel will allow to create mailing lists. This however will only be possible using the enterprise version of the admin panel yes? I hope not i.e. it would be great if the open source version would support creating mailing lists too.

It would be a great thing though (You asked for suggestions )!

For now, how do I set up a mailing list with the LDAP backend without using the Admin Panel at all? I searched but didn't find a howto.

Will the Admin Panel be part of iRedMail-0.5.1already?

We will ship it when it is considered stable enough.

There may be some more better database solutions, but not all mail server related components support them.
So we have to forget them.

ACL is used to protect SSL key, amavisd DKIM pem files, it's NOT recommend to make them world-readable.
But in -current, iRedMail will make them world-readable when ACL is not available, so that you can complete installation.

Mailbox quota doesn't depend on it.

Right.

Mailbox quota is MDA's business. (MDA -> Mail Deliver Agent)

Only per-user quota is available. Per-domain quota is implemented and can only be implemented in Admin Panel.

When mailbox is full, further mails can't be delivered into mailbox, so we have to notice user about mailbox usage.
And dovecot-quota-warning.sh is invoked by dovecot (setting in dovecot.conf), actually, it's invoked by 'deliver' MDA.

No plan to implement mail list in open source edition yet.

2)
About supporting several Database backends: I have come to the conclusion that a non SQL database that allows for replication is going to be the Database for all my future projects. Namely, I already started to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couchdb

- replication out of the box i.e. syncing two our more couchdb instances on different computers
- build-in web server i.e. no more need for Apache etc.
- HTTP API
- no fixed schema as with SQL databases
- simple JSON data format/types http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
- etc.

3)
About ACL. Why exactly is it needed? What does it do? Does the mailbox quota feature depend on it?

4)
About afore mentioned mailbox Quota:
- those types of quota are handled by dovecot right? I know /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf and from what I can tell, it should be the only file/place where one needs to change things with regards to quota settings right?
- the types of quota I know are those listed in /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf i.e. storage, messages, bytes, backend, etc. However, those are per user afaict right? What other types of do we have? per domain? anything else?
- why do we have ../tools/dovecot-quota-warning.sh? From what I can tell, it's triggered from within /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf automatically no? see     quota_warning = storage=85%% /usr/bin/dovecot-quota-warning.sh 85 for example

5)
afaik, Mailing Lists are possible using the LDAP backend. I figure the admin panel will allow to create mailing lists. This however will only be possible using the enterprise version of the admin panel yes? I hope not i.e. it would be great if the open source version would support creating mailing lists too.

Below is iRedMail roadmap for next 8 months, suggestions are always welcome.

And we hope you can donate us to make this project continue exists and keep moving.

• 2009-10-01: iRedMail-0.5.1 -release.

• 2009-10-09 ~ 2010-02-10: iRedMail-0.6.0 -release. Focus on:
  

  • PostgreSQL support.

  • Upgrade policyd to 2.x. As i said before, this is not a simple upgrade, but like a new component. We need more time to test it and write upgrade tutorial.

  • Try to make iRedMail work on FreeBSD (Which distribution do you prefer?), but no promise.

Any questions/suggestions?