Just out of curiosity, what would people recommend for large scale email? (what distro and application) I'm not wanting to start a flame war, just get opinions from people in that have had more experience than I have in large scale email. That said, here are the factors for consideration:
1) I am migrating email from a Win32 environment to a *nix based environment. :) I am working with people that I have to remind that Linux is not a singular all-encompassing distro (ie: that Linux does means Linux but rather SuSe, Redhat, Mandrake etc..) 2) It must be ultra-secure. 3) Large scale means over 1,500 mail boxes and approx 350 to 400 domains.
Thanks,
Michienne.
better start reading, there are many options that may or may not make your mail server secure...if you want 'ultra secure' unplug it and lock it in a bank vault. Any service that is connected to the internet is potentially vulnerable. As far as which email server to use...everyone usually has a personal favorite.
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:35:03 -0500, Phoenician phoenician@phoenixcolony.com wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what would people recommend for large scale email? (what distro and application) I'm not wanting to start a flame war, just get opinions from people in that have had more experience than I have in large scale email. That said, here are the factors for consideration:
- I am migrating email from a Win32 environment to a *nix based
environment. :) I am working with people that I have to remind that Linux is not a singular all-encompassing distro (ie: that Linux does means Linux but rather SuSe, Redhat, Mandrake etc..) 2) It must be ultra-secure. 3) Large scale means over 1,500 mail boxes and approx 350 to 400 domains.
Thanks,
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On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 11:35, Phoenician wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what would people recommend for large scale email? (what distro and application) I'm not wanting to start a flame war, just get opinions from people in that have had more experience than I have in large scale email. That said, here are the factors for consideration:
- I am migrating email from a Win32 environment to a *nix based
environment. :) I am working with people that I have to remind that Linux is not a singular all-encompassing distro (ie: that Linux does means Linux but rather SuSe, Redhat, Mandrake etc..) 2) It must be ultra-secure. 3) Large scale means over 1,500 mail boxes and approx 350 to 400 domains.
Thanks,
Michienne.
I am partial to Postfix/Cyrus/MySQL/Amavisd/Clamd/SpamAssassin/squirrelmail. We wrote a custom front end for maintaining the user base. Cyrus is extremely fast and efficient, though not always the easiest to configure. Once configured though, it just works and works well. I started with Luc Delouw's how-to. I did find though that some significant hacks were needed to make the setup truly capable of handling virtual domains. As I mentioned, we are not using the web-cyradm front-end, but you should be able to. I am actually using Procmail to filter out the domains and this is not recommended by Procmail, but I have not seen any problems with it. The filtering is good and solid and Squirrelmail has a ton of plugins, many of which allow userinfo including spam filtering preferences and black/white lists to be stored in MySQL. This setup takes a bit of time to get up and running, but IMHO is a feature-rich, rock-solid high performance system.
I have this running on RH8, RH9, and Fedora Core2.
http://www.delouw.ch/linux/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO/html/
HTH,
Brad
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