From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 18:37:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C241065677 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 18:37:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E18A8FC17 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 18:37:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n8so1042593gve.39 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 11:37:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=j16z/E4XDYT+XyRhLHHlzhBEY6eY9xvyzy4xiZA1Ztc=; b=KldEN7n6QA/KOsfDdpH5AAuk9SDi9L4bxKpiq1HR54fYbuQNFgRaHo85Wn11WtQgJNxLoiqw13/eJK1hrveiA+jmtEyRYjEkVFsctJiI8K4PgqmNAFE+4EAWp5zCRxFN8aV6F/oMODD2pCnkJu/zFTzXpx6ZNuRpcfnzItzsFY8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=ZedYMXLapYXcFsisOJDgdIHVT2SgGbJG8aLBTrRjfwKh+93+BQm1AH7l9vZqwbXwySBd/WR0KZ05EQyqP+LTpLgFs9Kdeuwi1RfMliVDU77xpRmYTMgg4qp66RwMvoZ0tJn0lkJQjZM30rr033qJNfFlK0tptFCm+d8EDUsOpTE= Received: by 10.150.51.4 with SMTP id y4mr83586yby.38.1212086234718; Thu, 29 May 2008 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.219.9 with HTTP; Thu, 29 May 2008 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <991123400805291137k21acccc3l3a1390d93b36bfe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 21:37:14 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com In-Reply-To: <483EE95F.8000509@studsvik.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <483EE95F.8000509@studsvik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to build a new mail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 18:37:17 -0000 On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Patrick Baldwin < Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com> wrote: > Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my > mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm > thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement. > > However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail > servers. I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail > servers that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server. > > I've only got about two dozen users, though they are all very heavy > users of email. I'm using IMAP, and I'd like to continue to do so. > > Finally, we have quite a few aliases I'd want to port over to a > new server. > > I like Exim + Dovecot with their flexibilities in configurations, security and proven performance. Exim is so flexible and the configuration "language" quite extensible you'll love it:-) In terms of hardware, any decent workstation-grade hardware will do: For example, I've managed to support over 200 users on an HP DC7800 with 4GB of RAM. This same box runs Clamav and SpamAssassin both for filtering mmalware and spam. It's a DB server, Web server, firewall/router. Users do POP3 mostly but I surely believe with some good disks, IMAP should not be such a problem with Dovecot. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Oh My God! They killed init! You Bastards!" --from a /. post