From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 22 07:37:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D206A37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:37:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.unixmexico.net (ns1.unixmexico.net [69.10.138.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39FF43F93 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbari@unixmexico.com) Received: (qmail 83763 invoked by uid 85); 22 Jul 2003 14:38:09 -0000 Received: from nbari@unixmexico.com by ns1.unixmexico.net by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (hbedv: 6.20.0.1/6.20.0.36. Clear:. Processed in 0.243998 secs); 22 Jul 2003 14:38:09 -0000 Received: from ns1.unixmexico.net (HELO mail.unixmexico.com) ([69.10.138.161]) (envelope-sender ) by ns1.unixmexico.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Jul 2003 14:38:09 -0000 Received: from 148.243.211.233 (SquirrelMail authenticated user nbari@unixmexico.com) by mail.unixmexico.com with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:38:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <1094.148.243.211.233.1058884689.squirrel@mail.unixmexico.com> In-Reply-To: <86d6g28zbj.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <86d6g28zbj.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:38:09 -0500 (CDT) From: nbari@unixmexico.com To: "Chris Shenton" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideal mail server: qmail or postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:37:52 -0000 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 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" > >