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Thanks for the reply! |
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they are only familiar with POP, since that's all the current provider |
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provides |
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I though 125 was a rather small number of mailboxes, but I've only built |
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Exchange servers for more than 20~ish users. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Yeah, I COULD build it myself, but this isn't really about money, except |
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when you have to buy a server, OS license, Exchange License, and 125 CALs. |
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Then, it doesn't really have any appeal. |
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The Dell is what I was looking at, since it comes with warranty etc. All |
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the workstations are Dell's so they have some comfort there. |
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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 |
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> the hardware a lot more cost-effectively then anyone else (even building |
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> as long as you don't mind using strictly Intel processors. |
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So, what would you use? I'd like to have IMAP, Pop, and Webmail (I use |
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squirrelmail at home) |
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(and of course spamassasin, and clamAV...) |
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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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