Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:49:24 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a new server Message-ID: <43E0D884.4040109@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> References: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac>
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Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > My company (a medium sized ISP) has decided to replace one of our mail > servers. We need more CPU power, memory, etc. My boss is talking about > getting 2 good size hard drives with a raid card to mirror these. I > was planning to install FreeBSD 5.3 (because that's the latest distro > I have CD's for) unless anyone has a good reason why not. > > I'll be installing Sendmail, mimedefang/spamassassin (somewhat CPU > intensive), bind (for a caching name server), Qpopper, procmail. We > currently have 500 - 600 mail accounts on the current server, and plan > to move these to the new server plus use the new one for growth (I > don't know how quickly new mail accounts will be added, but say 20 to > 50 accounts per month. I'd suggest using courier-imap or something else instead of qpopper. Afaik, qpopper supports only the mailbox format, which is slower and less secure than the maildir format used by modern pop3/imap servers. Courier-imap has a pop3 and an imap part, both of them have SSL support and are easily configurable. Your company migth benefit from running an imap server too. It has a bunch of advantages over pop3, so this might make your users feel more appreciated. Regards, Gabor Kovesdan
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