Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:48:29 +0700 From: Khanh Cao Van <cvkhanh@gmail.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: MikeM <the.lists@mgm51.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix vs. qmail? Message-ID: <5fd642fc050630234818a6390c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEOHFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <200506290913180129.03B76DAC@sentry.24cl.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEOHFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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What about postfix vs Courier Mail Server ??? On 6/30/05, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: >=20 >=20 > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of MikeM > >Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:13 AM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Subject: Re: postfix vs. qmail? > > > > > >On 6/29/2005 at 8:48 AM brian.barto@spectrum-health.org wrote: > > > >|For one who wants to host email accounts for multiple domains, which > >is > >|better? I've started installing and configuring qmail according to the > >|tutorial on qmailrocks.org but i'm wondering if i should stop and > >consider > >|postfix before pressing on. > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D > > > >I started using qmail but eventually switched to Postfix. I found that > >qmail required several [conflicting] patches to get the feature level I > >wanted. I also did not like the need to move my box towards what djb > >thought a *nix box should be set up. Postfix seems to want to just > >drop in to a standard environment. But the items that really made the > >choice easy for me are that the Postfix mailing list is excellent, and > >that Postfix development is still alive. > > > >I host multiple virtual domains with Postfix (and Courier-IMAP for the > >pop3 amd imap support). > > > > >=20 > We use uw-imap and sendmail and host many thousands of mailboxes. One > of the issues with the maildir format that postfix and courier-imap > use is that it requires more disk writes for each piece of mail your > running through a mailbox. Obviously, like many technical issues, you > can throw money at the problem (in hardware investment) and it will > go away. :-) >=20 > One other thing you should consider if your really intending on > setting up multiple domains and charging money for them (as opposed > to just doinking with a mailserver in your home) is going to a > three-mailserver setup. Use one mailserver specifically for receiving > and sending mail from the Internet proper, use one for the user > mailboxes and user SMTP, and use one for the webinterface. >=20 > The reason for this is that you really need to run spam and virus > scanning on the mailserver that is published as the SMTP server > for your domains, and you will find that for every 1 piece of > legitimate mail that you receive from the Internet > and deliver to your users mailbox, you will get 9 others that are > spam or viruses or junk. Because of the AV and spam scanning, this > server is also the most prone to taking a dump. When it goes > offline, you don't want all your users calling you and screaming > when their mail clients all start spitting errors back to them. >=20 > You also want the webinterface separate because of the simple reason > that the best webinterfaces are the most complex, because they > do the most for the user. Sure, you can field a simple webinterface > like Open Webmail, but this is pretty bare-bones compared to > somethng like Horde/IMP And while Horde/IMP is a long, bitchy, > involved and complex setup, if you do it right your users will > love it, and will most likely come to utterly depend on it for > handling mail and scheduling. This is what you really want, the name > of the game here is customer retention, and you want to make it > easy for customers to get entangled with your systems and difficult > for them to get out. And the best way to do this is to offer them > a schmorgasboard of things to choose from. A stripped down webinterface > is simple to setup and administer, but it is also very easy for a > customer to walk away from. By contrast an interface that will > do everything for them, is difficult to walk away from once they > start depending on it doing everything for them! :-) Why do you > think AOL still has millions of customers while charging double the > going rate for dialup? >=20 > Ted > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 --=20 ------------------------------- Cao Van Khanh
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