Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] high volume IMAP/smtp server
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:58:19
Message-Id: 20051202135332.2fbd2db3.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] high volume IMAP/smtp server by Peter van Eck
1 Hi,
2
3 On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:13:19 +0100 (CET)
4 "Peter van Eck" <peter@××××××××××××.net> wrote:
5
6 > Need to migrate from netscape mail server running 7000 users to a
7 > preferrable open source solution(ncluding failover cluster).
8 >
9 > Anyone got recommendations/suggestions , or actually running with this
10 > amount of users.
11
12 I'd suggest Cyrus. Also check out their info on the Cyrus IMAP
13 Aggregator: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html
14
15 Using this, you can scale the IMAP server at your needs. Further,
16 you'll probably need one machine for SMTP and one or more for
17 spam/virus filtering.
18
19 Given the availability usually expected from mail infrastructure, you
20 should carefully think over the choice of your distribution.
21
22 -hwh
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