<quote who="Tomas Kuliavas"> >> The company I work for has been running exchange 5.5. We have had >> corrupt >> databases multiple times with this exchange server. It has been decided >> that this exchange server needs to be replaced. I have setup a >> postfix+procmail+dovcot-imap+spamassassin+squirrelmail server and have >> migrated some of our major exchange server users mailboxes over to this >> server for testing purposes. My bosses like squirrelmail allot. My next >> step is to let the users test it out. We are looking at going completely >> webmail based for the MUA in our company using squirrelmail. We have >> around 35 users and only 6 gigs of email. My guess is we send and >> receive >> as a whole on average about 300 emails a day total. >> >> Does anyone think going completely webmail based using squirrelmail for >> the MUA is a bad idea? Does anyone have any thoughts on this at all? Is >> there anyone in this mailing list that has done this before? If so I >> would >> love to hear about how it has worked out. >> >> >> I will be running this server on a PE2650, raid 5, single xeon 2.4Ghz, >> with 1 gig of ram. I think this server can handle what I need it for >> easy >> enough. Does anyone see this differently? > > Advice No.1. Use Cyrus IMAP or any other setup that uses Maildirs. > http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/ > > You have machine that might have some space CPU cycles, but that is not > the excuse to waste those cycles in unoptimized webmail setup. > > I think dovencot-IMAP uses default unix mail spool and stores emails in > mbox format. mbox has lower bottlenecks than maildir. > > No 2. http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/SquirrelMailPerformance > > No 3. http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/WindowsMailto > > No 4. RAID1 or any serious backup solution. If your raid array breaks, you > will lose all your mail. > > -- > Tomas > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > >
Dovecot can use both mbox and maildir. I have it setup to use maildir. Dovecot claims to be the fastest and most secure. But I think anyone who is claiming to be the most secure is asking for trouble myself. It claims to use less memory than all of the other imap servers out there. It can user either virtual users or system users. I have it setup for now to use system users I can't justify spending 8 hours learning how to setup virtual users on a mail server this small. It is alot faster than uw-imap that is for sure. I have looked at both cyrus and courier. The complete blackbox setup that cyrus can do seems to be its major selling point. Courier I really liked the looks of and just might use inplace of dovecot unless I can find out if people are using dovecot in production environments. One of the last things I need to work on is the backup solution. I have not decided one way or the other how I am going to tackle this problem. I will be using tape backup for sure, but I am not sure if just using dump alone is enough. Thanks for the feedback. -- Avery ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
