It designed to offers Postfix, fetchmail, dnsmasq, LDAP, squid,samba, dansguardian features without technical skills through a web browser. The main goal of this project is to provide Linux capabilities to people who do not have the time or skills to integrate a full Mail systems or Files sharing systems or Proxy systems.

Indeed, Linux is now available to all users, at least with regard to its installation. Regards to the administration and the integration of "professional" applications, that is another story .(...) The addition of products such as Postfix, LDAP, Cyrus, fetchmail, procmail, amavis, clamav, spamassassin ... is still art.

Moreover, once this mission, it remains to configure and maintain all products listed above. Artica For Postfix / SQUID is a project that answer to this request. It offers the possibility to any novice installing all these components without technical knowledge.

After installing all components, Artica For Postfix provide a user-friendly web interface for managing mailboxes / user accounts and all rules and parameters that Postfix / SQUID /Samba provides. The administration interface is developped in PHP and Ajax and available in Open Source.

Installation procedure is simple: Artica Core is the base and the hub. you add "modules" to make an SMTP relay and / or a mailbox server and / or webmail and / or a web proxy and / or a secure web proxy.