Re: [swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Kirill Ponazdyr
Nico, For domain toaster of that size, qmail-ldap is a nice solution, but software seems to be orphaned now, as soon as some major SMTP enhancements come in I am afraid qmail will slowly die out. As some have already mentioned, the Maildir format used by Qmail is suboptimal for handling large box

Re: [swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Jeroen Massar
Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: > Jeroen Massar [Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:18:18PM +]: >> That all depends on what you are used to. >> >> The mini-isp setup: >> - Debian unstable > > unstable? for production system? Yes, why not? Unstable == newest of the newest. The only thing that can brea

Re: [swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Stanislav Sinyagin
> I am currently really thinking of giving postfix a try, but it somehow > "feels" like stepping backwards. > > I am really interested in some experiences of postfix admins and how > they handle virtual domains and users. Postfix is great, efficient and easy to use. Also there are lots of plugin

Re: [swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Jeroen Massar [Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 02:18:18PM +]: > That all depends on what you are used to. > > The mini-isp setup: > - Debian unstable unstable? for production system? > - nsd or pdns as authoritive dns > - pdns as a recursing dns dns was not really questioned, but I would prefer djb

Re: [swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Stanislav Sinyagin
we've been operating ISPMan+openldap+postfix+Cyrus+horde, but then moved our services to Plesk. Having looked back, I'd still go again with Plesk. It saves a lot of time, and normally a sysadmin's working time is more expensive than the software license. It has its limitations and unconvenience

Re: [swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Matthias Blaser
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:01, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: > I'm personally deep into qmail+patches+patches+patches of patches > plus courier and dovecot. > > The problem with qmail is that you need either a big patchset or > a once patched setup and reuse that. Plus qmail really has > som

Re: [swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Jeroen Massar
Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: > Hello! > > Just wanted to ask what setup you use or recommend for large > scale sites (~10k users, some hundreds of imap(s), smtp, webmail > connections, about 5-10 mails incoming and outgoing per second): > > - what smtpd? why? > - what mail retrieval solution

[swinog] Mail server - Unix

2006-12-24 Diskussionsfäden Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Hello! Just wanted to ask what setup you use or recommend for large scale sites (~10k users, some hundreds of imap(s), smtp, webmail connections, about 5-10 mails incoming and outgoing per second): - what smtpd? why? - what mail retrieval solution for which protocol? - if you offer webmail, what