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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for low maintenance Debian mail/dns/web setup?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for low maintenance Debian mail/dns/web setup?
  • From: "Brenda J. Butler" <bjb [ at ] sourcerer [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 19:27:12 -0500
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 08:24:56PM -0500, Michael Walma wrote:
> reconsider some of my package choices.  I am currently running Postfix, 
> Dovecot, Apache and Maradns quite happily and with very little 
> maintenance required.  The one part of my set-up that I have not been 
> completely happy with has been my choice of Horde/IMP for web mail 
> access.  There's nothing terribly wrong with it, but it looks clunky and 
> I'm thinking there must be better alternatives.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice for Horde alternatives?  (Or for other parts 
> of my set-up, although for that I would take some convincing?)  I would 

You might consider a lighter-weight web server - one example is lighttpd.
Apache is heavy-weight and hard to configure (too much flexibility).

bjb