Re: [gentoo-server] Web hosting for 75k+ users

[Joby Walker]

Jens Gutzeit wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:04, Gerhard Just Olsen wrote:
>>Should I use qmail or postfix and why?
>
> I would suggest postfix, not because of some benchmarks, there are just too
> many that say different things, but in my opinion postfix is just a more
> modern mail server, with qmail you might run into trouble with a lot of
> bounces, because qmail doesn't reject during smtp conversation.
>

Another option is dbmail (http://www.dbmail.org/).  Instead of storing 
mail is a mailbox or maildir, mail is stored in a MySQL or PostgreSQL 
database.  The system works pretty well and is designed for this kind of 
large userbase.

>
>>What about antispam and antivirus? Any suggestions/experiences?
>
>
> We use amavisd-new here, together with spamassassin. We just
> reject .com, .exe, etc... so we realy don't need an AV, if this isn't an
> option to you, you might want to look at clamav, or if money issn't such a
> big problem the products of centralcommand, they work pretty well, and the
> support is really good.
>

We use amavisd-new with SpamAssassin, Razor, and ClamAV.

>>I have some experience using squirrel web mail. Any suggestions here?
>
>
> No, squirrelmail is good, I suggest to use turck-mmcache or s.th. like that to
> speed up PHP.
>

Squirrel is a great app.  If you go with dbmail there is also a native 
web app that can access the maildb directly rather than going through IMAP.

>>I plan to use the wiki to document the apps that I use. It should be the
>>natural place for something like that.
>
>
> same here. But it's an internal wiki :-(
>

Wiki's rock for documentation.  We use a customized PhpWiki.

jbw