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I've been running this for the better part of two decades for SMTP/IMAP/POP, but I want more, like fulltext search via IMAP. Considering moving to Mailcow for a

I've been running this for the better part of two decades for SMTP/IMAP/POP, but I want more, like fulltext search via IMAP. Considering moving to Mailcow for a more full-featured experience, without having to tie all the different parts together myself. Thoughts?

interfixus 6y ago
> You need Docker and Docker Compose > mailcow requires the latest version of docker-compose. [...] Package managers (e.g. apt, yum) likely won't give you the latest version I read no further.
- znpy 6y ago
  I tried some of those solutions and gave up none of them included sieve at the time.
nix23 6y ago
Yes checkout iRedmail: https://www.iredmail.org/ https://www.iredmail.org/
- gnabgib 6y ago
  iRedMail is fine, pretty good set of components auto configured to cooperate, but it's a resource beast. 2GB of ram really isn't enough to operate it (mostly due to the virus scanners and its default config). I know we march towards ever increasing system ram, but it used to be trivial to run mail and web (plus small db and a server side language) in 512MB of ram
  - nix23 6y ago
    Well you can disable/enable everything like you want it.
  - zhb 6y ago
    You can disable spam/virus scanning by following this tutorial: https://docs.iredmail.org/completely.disable.amavisd.clamav.spamassassin.html https://docs.iredmail.org/completely.disable.amavisd.clamav....
    - gnabgib 6y ago
      Oh absolutely, and based on your initials I imagine you're the author (thank you for your work!) I didn't mean to suggest that iRedMail is setting `suck=11;` just that an individual might be surprised that it's not as trivial as it used to be to run a mail server (although it's more secure)
      - zhb 6y ago
        Yes i'm author of iRedMail project. :)
gumby 6y ago
Switch to Docecot which has full text search and seive. Sadly there aren’t any good seive clients, though logging in and using Emacs is not much of a burden.
- khimaros 6y ago
  Rainloop is solid.
  - gumby 6y ago
    Thanks.

interfixus 6y ago

> You need Docker and Docker Compose > mailcow requires the latest version of docker-compose. [...] Package managers (e.g. apt, yum) likely won't give you the latest version I read no further.

znpy 6y ago
I tried some of those solutions and gave up none of them included sieve at the time.

nix23 6y ago

Yes checkout iRedmail: https://www.iredmail.org/ https://www.iredmail.org/

gnabgib 6y ago
iRedMail is fine, pretty good set of components auto configured to cooperate, but it's a resource beast. 2GB of ram really isn't enough to operate it (mostly due to the virus scanners and its default config). I know we march towards ever increasing system ram, but it used to be trivial to run mail and web (plus small db and a server side language) in 512MB of ram
- nix23 6y ago
  Well you can disable/enable everything like you want it.
- zhb 6y ago
  You can disable spam/virus scanning by following this tutorial: https://docs.iredmail.org/completely.disable.amavisd.clamav.spamassassin.html https://docs.iredmail.org/completely.disable.amavisd.clamav....
  - gnabgib 6y ago
    Oh absolutely, and based on your initials I imagine you're the author (thank you for your work!) I didn't mean to suggest that iRedMail is setting `suck=11;` just that an individual might be surprised that it's not as trivial as it used to be to run a mail server (although it's more secure)
    - zhb 6y ago
      Yes i'm author of iRedMail project. :)

gumby 6y ago

Switch to Docecot which has full text search and seive. Sadly there aren’t any good seive clients, though logging in and using Emacs is not much of a burden.

khimaros 6y ago
Rainloop is solid.
- gumby 6y ago
  Thanks.