BearMail

• Install Debian package with APT source deb http://deb.bearstech.com bearmail/ (Debian 5.0/Lenny, all arch.)
• Browse source: source:/bearmail/
• Checkout code: svn co svn://forge.bearstech.com/forge/bearmail

Introduction

BearMail is a collection of tools to help you manage a "mail server", with the following components:

• Postfix MTA: receive mail for your domains, send mail for your users (SMTP Auth, TLS, etc)
• Dovecot IMAP/POP server: store and retrieve your mails
• RoundCubeMail webmail: use your email anywhere
• Anti-virus, anti-spam: ClamAV, DSPAM

It was primarily designed as a system administration tool which coherrently configures all these packages from centralized, simple and bullet-proof configuration data. It is evolving with a user-oriented web interface, and shortly more scalability features like database backends.

Features

• Easy: file-based configuration (VCS friendly), adding or modifying accounts, aliases, etc is a one-liner
• Efficient and measurable default anti-spam settings (see also PostfixLogTools)
• Adminsys friendly: let you tune configuration details and get out of your way
• Standard: use various softwares in their preferred and recommended configuration (we parsed a huge bunch of documentation and forums for you)
• Resilient: no daemon, very low ressource usage, few dependencies
• Secure: primarily a CLI tool, relies on traditionnal, simple and auditable Unix security
• Tested: it has successfully been used by Bearstech since early 2008 on several servers with thousands of user accounts.

See also those postmaster tools:

• PostfixLogTools: graph your incoming mail filtering rules and track email reject top reasons

Screenshots

Incoming SPAM early rejects graphed by PostfixLogTools:

Have a peek on the coming web interface: