Setting up Postfix and Dovecot to play nicely with mutt, mbox, Maildir and FreeBSD

I’m one of two people I’m aware of who still runs their own e-mail servers. I do this for a multitude of reasons, mostly because I love mutt and nothing else quite stacks up to it. Running a local mail server with mutt reading a local inbox is relatively simple. I run Postfix and it [...]

FreeRADIUS on FreeBSD and OpenLDAP

Instead of relying on PAM or /etc/passwd for authentication and authorization, I decided to store account information in an OpenLDAP database. Of course I could have used NIS or flat file databases, but OpenLDAP proved to be the best solution for my situation. sudo portinstall net/openldap23-server This will install the OpenLDAP 2.3 client and server. [...]