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125 E-mail accounts is a rather negligible number. Processor type doesn't |
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matter, but give it a decent amount of RAM (512; 1GB if you want to do |
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decently-fast spam and AV filtering). Depending on if you plan to go POP or |
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IMAP, I'd recommend doing something like a RAID1 array of 2 or 3 SATA hard |
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drives; scale the size depending on how much mail you want to let people |
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keep on the server. External USB drives work great for backups (read up on |
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spare devices w/ RAID, if you can get a large enough external). I also like |
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to have my servers send tarballs to each other, and have a central backup |
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server, but that might be overkill for your situation. |
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If you're looking at buying hardware, I'd recommend something like a Dell |
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SC-series (1425 if you want rack-mounting, they're nice). I find they can do |
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the hardware a lot more cost-effectively then anyone else (even building it) |
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as long as you don't mind using strictly Intel processors. |
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In my experience, I'd stay away from qmail for e-mail purposes, but hey, |
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it's all about freedom. |
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On 7/31/06, Dennis McLeod <dennis@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I recently took a job at an employeer that has NO domain structure, just |
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> a bunch of 2000 and XP boxes in a workgroup. |
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> Email is hosted outside (about 125 accounts), as is the website. |
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> The email is thrown in as part of the website package, but they are |
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> going to change providers again, and are going to have to migrate these |
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> accounts to the new provider. |
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> I'm exploring what it would take to move email inside. |
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> I'm curious what hardware you build on. Do you buy Dell, HP, build your |
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> own, or do something else? |
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> What level of hardware would you use for an email only server with this |
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> number of accounts? |
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> What if you added print and file services? |
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> What do you use for backup? |
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> I've not built a Linux server for a business, just at home for a couple |
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> of "hobby" domains (Currently CentOS 4.3 with a QmailRocks install). |
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> Gentoo has only been on my desktop.... |
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> I have built LOTS of MS servers (enough that I can recite the license |
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> keys...), but don't feel much like giving them the $$$ for this. (or |
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> anything else, really, in the future) |
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> Thanks in advance for any input. |
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> Dennis |
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