From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 18:56:37 2004 Return-Path: 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 598B616A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:56:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E490E43D49 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:56:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id i7JIt2D19020; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:55:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200408191855.i7JIt2D19020@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: metrion@gmail.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:55:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <804fd9a304081911316496fc18@mail.gmail.com> from "Metrion" at Aug 19, 2004 11:31:57 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-Q Subject: Re: Advice on webmail server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:56:37 -0000 > > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone can give me some tips on setup for a server I'm > making. It's going to be a webmail server for a client, with probably > no more then 700-800 total accounts, with maybe up to 250 concurrent > users. Will be some HTML mail (bleh!) and flash/animated gif/etc also. > I thought of Squirrelmail as the likely candidate. Mostly internal > connections, with external via SSL available. Bandwidth isn't an > issue. > > The server is a HP ProLiant DL380, twin 2.8GHz Xeon, 2G ram. 2x36.4G > 10k Ultra320 and 4x72.8G 10k Ultra320. > > I have the 36.4G drives mirrored, for OS and config stuff, and was > going to make the 4x72.8G a raid5 and that be the mail spool > partition. Is that sound like a good idea? > > I've not used FreeBSD for anything like this before and frankly am not > sure what changes from default I should use, if any. Should I stick > with 4.10, or is 5.2.1 OK? Any sysctl changes? Default kernel OK? Sounds like you have most everything covered. For a production server, stick with 4.10 for now. Later, do a massive upgrade to 5.3 when it has been proven for a bit. Basically, stick with the defaults unless they prove lacking. There is generally a reason they became the default and often it is even a good reason. Squirrel works pretty well for a webmail server. Of course you will need to install Apache or something equivalent. You might want to add an Email list utility such as Majordomo or Mailman. ////jerry > > Thanks for any tips! > > -- > Met