Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:38:09 -0500 (CDT) From: nbari@unixmexico.com To: "Chris Shenton" <chris@shenton.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideal mail server: qmail or postfix Message-ID: <1094.148.243.211.233.1058884689.squirrel@mail.unixmexico.com> In-Reply-To: <86d6g28zbj.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <BB422296.66BE%james@organicwire.net> <86d6g28zbj.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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We give free email at unixmexico.org and whe use qmail + ldap patch (http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/), whe have virtualdomains, pop3 (qmail) and imap (courier-imap), filters for spam using procmail, mailing list are with ezmlm-idx. most of the work is done via ldap, whe also have a cluster enviroment thanks, to the ldap patch it is very eazy tu make clusters. cheers > James Godwin <james@organicwire.net> writes: > >> I was wondering what mail servers fellow ISP are running. I can't decide >> between postfix or qmail. > > At one ISP I support, we've been running a qmail-based system with > domain and user virtualization provided by vpopmail, courier-imap, and > sqwebmail. Been solid as a rock. For lists, ezmlm-idx is the best I've > used. > > Check www.inter7.org for pointers to the vpopmail stuff. > > I've set up qmail/vpopmail/courier-imap/sqwebmail for other small > customers and never had a complaint, it just works. > > For a larger site (2000 people) I'm building something similar but > using qmail-ldap for account provisioning and virtualization instead > of vpopmail. I will again be using courier-imap and sqwebmail. > > One of the big advantages of qmail is its preferred mailbox format > called Maildir. Each message is stored in a separate file which makes > updates, deletions, scanning for new mail, etc much much faster than a > large flat file. It's also safe across NFS mounts so you can have a > number of mail servers reading from and delivering to the mailstore at > the same time, without corruption. This makes it possible to easily > scale a mail system as your users grow: just add more servers. > > Qmail, courier-imap, and sqwebmail all understand Maildir so they're a > good combination. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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