First thoughts on Dovecot + Exim and other stuff

So, Dovecot was way easier to setup than Courier IMAP It’s also really fast, and the website is nice and up to date/modern and easy to use. I think this will be my choice in the future!
Exim is holy-crap-complicated to get started with (compared to Postfix, at least). I think it might be an artifact of the way Debian/Ubuntu packages things - there are 73 files and directories in the /etc/exim4 configuration directory, and (as far as I’ve found) no straight forward guide to what goes where.
To their credit, to get exim4 to work as I initially wanted, I only had to edit /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf after running dpkg-reconfigure. Exim4 by default delivers to mbox mail spools in /var/mail, rather than to Maildir folders in /home/user. Luckily, it’s simple to switch - just add the line ‘dc_localdelivery=maildir_home’ to the update-exim4.conf.conf file.

Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s going to be a straight forward and simple to get ClamAV and SpamAssassin setup - unless Ubuntu has a surprise waiting for me in the apt-get configuration process!

Another item I’m working on, is getting an LDAPS address book server running, to centralize my address books - boy is that a nightmare Different schemas for different clients (that’s the best idea I’ve seen!), different SSL capabilities with different clients (it appears Thunderbird wont use a self-signed SSL certificate by default for Address Book). I’ll be sure to post something useful once I get it working, assuming I ever get it working!