Re: which mailserver to choose?
Hi, thanks for the link here.
Lots of info I can use.
For the moment I have a lot of other things to do so I have not read the
entire doc, but what I have read so far is good.
Also the thing about webmail solution, thats nice. I'm going to run Apache
on the server so I think I'll try scuirrelmail to.
Again Steve, thanks a lot:)
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Steve Block wrote:
> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:07:21 -0600
> From: Steve Block <scblock@ev-15.com>
> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: which mailserver to choose?
> Resent-Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:25:14 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:54:52PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
> >
> >Hi all,
> >I have some questions about which mailserver to choose under Debian.
> >The thing is that I today have a windoze box that is running all services,
> >DHCP, MS dns for internal users, BIND for external, Apache for Windoze, a
> >ftp server for both up- and download and a mailserver. The mailserver is
> >the latest ver. of Merak mailserver.
> >The box is also running RAID5 on dynamisk windoze partitions.
> >
> >I will no convert the whole ting to Debian, but I have never configured a
> >mailserver on debian and I will be thankful for some hints, minihowto and
> >pointer to the right direction.
> >
> >I think I will be running Woody on the server, which is a AMD 850 with
> >512MB ram, I have used this box as Debian server before and the speed is
> >then two- tree times faster then running windoze:)
> >
> >The current mailsystem, Merak, is a wery "light" mailserver but with all
> >the functionallity you'll need with support for POP, IMAP, webmail,
> >calendar, news, mailinglists (all users in domain) and IM server.
> >It's very easy to create and administer users, create alias and set quota
> >for mailboxes on per domain or user.
> >
> >So if any of you gurus have some good tips I will be thankful.
> >I have looked at Cyrus and Cyrus21 pop and imap but is not sure if that is
> >the most easily system to set up.
> >
> >I have only been running Debian for just two-tree years so I'm not
> >considered experienced. I can get my day to day applic running on a Sarge
> >box, laptop and pc but that is something quite different then running a
> >server:)
> >
> >/ernst-magne
>
> Although I'm not sure if what I have done for myself is quite what you
> are looking for, I have put together a fairly detailed guide to running
> postfix and cyrus21 on Debian (originally so I would be able to do it
> again if i needed to). I see that you mention Woody, while I used Sarge,
> but maybe you'll find some helpful information here.
>
> http://wiki.ev-15.com/debian:mail_system
>
> It is on a wiki, so if anyone more experienced than me has suggestions for
> improvement, please feel free to make them on the wiki itself. The setup
> described is archiving debian-user, so it can handle fairly high volumes
> of mail. =)
>
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