From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 15:49:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DA216A420 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:49:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4126243D48 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:49:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156AC99834F; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:49:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26937-01; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:49:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from [80.98.231.227] (catv-5062e7e3.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.231.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F386E998150; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:49:28 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43E0D884.4040109@t-hosting.hu> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:49:24 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lisa Casey References: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> In-Reply-To: <014001c62743$f11bf070$d51a2cd0@lisac> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a new 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: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:49:38 -0000 Lisa Casey wrote: > Hi, > > My company (a medium sized ISP) has decided to replace one of our mail > servers. We need more CPU power, memory, etc. My boss is talking about > getting 2 good size hard drives with a raid card to mirror these. I > was planning to install FreeBSD 5.3 (because that's the latest distro > I have CD's for) unless anyone has a good reason why not. > > I'll be installing Sendmail, mimedefang/spamassassin (somewhat CPU > intensive), bind (for a caching name server), Qpopper, procmail. We > currently have 500 - 600 mail accounts on the current server, and plan > to move these to the new server plus use the new one for growth (I > don't know how quickly new mail accounts will be added, but say 20 to > 50 accounts per month. I'd suggest using courier-imap or something else instead of qpopper. Afaik, qpopper supports only the mailbox format, which is slower and less secure than the maildir format used by modern pop3/imap servers. Courier-imap has a pop3 and an imap part, both of them have SSL support and are easily configurable. Your company migth benefit from running an imap server too. It has a bunch of advantages over pop3, so this might make your users feel more appreciated. Regards, Gabor Kovesdan