Postini

It's not free. It's $12/year/mailbox.

I can't see anywhere whether it sends email on to you, or acts as your pop/imap services, but my guess is it sends email on to you.

If so it will most likely work with DirectAdmin with the simple changes to DNS MX they require.

However they don't mention exim in their documentaiton, so I'd say to ask them. DirectAdmin isn't going to switch from Exim.

Jeff
 
You can setup Postini filtering simply by changing your MX records. It's not DA-specific in anyway.
 
Yes, and options.conf is set to rewrite conf file no, but with every exim update it wipes my conf clean, the output of custombuild seems to say it has "patched" indicating its not a conf issue, but sure enough, with Centos 5.2 64bit and custombuild 1.1, it rewrites the file.
If you hadn't guessed, with this post, and my last Zimbra post, an alternative to Exim would certainly be welcomed.
 
You're most likely not going to get a replacement to exim in DirectAdmin. It's not something you can choose with a checkbox because it would require a completely different mail setup for any other MTA. And it's unlikely DirectAdmin is going to switch; it would require a major restructuring of DirectAdmin to move away from an MTA a lot of us consider the best one ever written :).

I believe you already know that you can host Zimbra on another server (zimbra is not compatible with running on the same server as DirectAdmin) and turn off email on DirectAdmin, on a per-client basis. Lots of DirectAdmin offer alternate email solutions, or support clients who bring their own alternate solutions to the table.

And as Orien has already pointed out above, anyone who wants to pay $12 per email address per year can certainly set up Postini, either hosted as SAAS, or on a Postini appliance, in front of the DirectAdmin server.

So I wonder why you insist on beating the dead horse :)?

I have no idea why the exim.conf file is being overwritten rather than patched; hopefully Martynas will look at this thread and offer his response, since he wrote custombuild.

Jeff
 
Custombuild only touches exim.conf if eximconf option is set to yes in the options.conf.
 
Well, do you know how to install postini to one domain? Only change DNS records for domain?
 
You can set MX record, and also uncheck box for DirectAdmin to handle email, on a per-domain basis.

Jeff
 
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