External mail server or scanner

[FreeBSDGuy]

I have searched the forums but I have not found a solution. I would like to remove the mail features completely from Directadmin and create a link so when the user clicks on the email feature it pulls up the control panel for the external mail server (we have only user level accounts, no resellers), I can easily do this by editing and renaming the skin.

Is anyone doing this? Are there any good mail programs out there that have a good GUI for the user?

Or is there any good mail scanner (spam/virus) solutions out there where it would allow each user to have there own settings? This way the mail could be scanned first and only good mail sent to the server, then I wouldn't mind as much about having the mail on the server although Exim really stinks for mail specially when people use squirrel mail and let their inbox contain allot of messages.

I would realy prefer to have mail on a seperate server but an external mail scanner (with end user GUI) would be a second choice.

 

[nobaloney]

I have searched the forums but I have not found a solution. I would like to remove the mail features completely from Directadmin and create a link so when the user clicks on the email feature it pulls up the control panel for the external mail server (we have only user level accounts, no resellers), I can easily do this by editing and renaming the skin.

Yes.

Is anyone doing this? Are there any good mail programs out there that have a good GUI for the user?

You might want to look at: Vexim, which also uses exim.

Or is there any good mail scanner (spam/virus) solutions out there where it would allow each user to have there own settings?

We're working on one but it's far from ready. There are lots of commercial solutions out there that will fit the bill nicely, but most aren't cheap.

This way the mail could be scanned first and only good mail sent to the server, then I wouldn't mind as much about having the mail on the server although Exim really stinks for mail specially when people use squirrel mail and let their inbox contain allot of messages.

That's a personal opinion; forget my suggestion above, then. But the problem you're writing about isn't with exim; it's with the mbox directory format. You can convert your system to use MailDir, and solve the problem you're reporting with Squirrelmail (in fact with most imap clients); see elsewhere in these forums for information.

Jeff

 

[patrik]

This way the mail could be scanned first and only good mail sent to the server, then I wouldn't mind as much about having the mail on the server although Exim really stinks for mail specially when people use squirrel mail and let their inbox contain allot of messages.

That has nothing to do with Exim! Exim does no work at all when a user login on Squirrelmail to check their mail. It's the imap server that's slow. Try using Maildir format and Dovecot as imap server instead. Dovecot use indexes when reading the inbox and is pretty fast actually.

edit/ Oh. jlasman already answered that. Well I would also like to state that Dovecot does a lot of work speeding up the inbox.