pesoy misak wrote:
Dear all
Well I just got a little story behind this question. I just succeed convince my customer that trying to do web design using ASP.net to use Linux using PHP yeaaahhh
Linux Rulez. now seems I got a bit problem trying to convince this administrator to change all the system using linux. he is asking about the mail server for replacement for their exchange server 2003 that he said is the best (may be true)
I just want to debate with this guy since I haven't much experience with mail server. he want to know the capabilities of each linux mail server and compatibilty and how much can the mail server handle like how much email etc, etc and how much size that it could handle
well I really praise linux for everything i hope i could find some answer
Now, your customer has PHP.
You may leverage the idea of PHP in your sales pitch to sell Linux Servers running Mail MTAs for its flexibility, security, and manageability.
A number of selling points:
1. Postfix MTA is easy to install, simple to manage, fast and efficient. It is highly scalable; handles multiple (virtual) mail domains with a single point of login no matter how many mail servers in the mail server farms. You may use MySQL (or LDAP) backend and PHP scripting language. May be secured with current encryption softwares like openssl through cyrus-sasl and kerberos. Supports authenticated mobile smtp mail users.
http://www.postfix.org http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl http://www.openssl.org http://www.openldap.org http://www.mysql.com http://www.php.net http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www
2. In combination with Courier-IMAP, Postfix makes it hard to fault as simple and flexible Mail Server that's easy to administer.
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap
3. With Horde, IMP, Kronolith, Turba, Vilma, Chora, Klutz, Mnemo, etc. this Linux Mail Server becomes a workgroup server capable of handling calendars, address books, presentations, news, mail filtering, centralised IT support centre with online chat support, instant and online user surveys,etc. Horde and all of its components are written in PHP scripting using Object Oriented Programming Principles.
http://www.horde.org
Have fun.
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