From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 17 23:40:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56F437B423 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 23FF56A901 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:40:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com [212.73.210.79] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id A9B34AC70242; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:44:03 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20000918081732.04af17a0@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:40:33 +0200 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: I-Mail on NT equivalent for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <39C5A7AF.86F294D@aspenworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I've taken another look at I-MAIL for Windows NT. It allows the >end-user to create mailing lists, modify their forwarding records, add >vacation agents all through a simple web interface. > > Anything equivalent in FreeBSD land? Not for free. I second Boris' rec of Communigate Pro. It seems to be an excellent product, and in spite of its cost, good value for money. (But, after my positive experience with FreeBSD and "appliance" type of machines, I am reticent to ask one machine to do everything.0) To build a Imail/Vircom/Mailsite type of integrated NT mail platform on FreeBSD and have the web interface for user account self-management would be quite difficult. A FreeBSD/postfix/POP3/IMAP4 box is doable, but I don't know of a web interface for user mail/self-admin to match Imail's to go along with it. I run Imail, but have used FreeBSD/postfix to build a IMGate, see my sig, to complement Imail, leaving Imail as a POP3/SMTP AUTH/Web messaging server. I don't even let Imail delivery its own mail to Internet but have it dump its output on an IMGate hub. Imail's web messaging is an expensive task. Single Imail machines can support 100,000+ POP3 mailboxes easily and reliably (one user reports 250K accounts on one quad Xeon with outgoing SMTP through a big Sun, 25 bg mail traffic/day), but when it can be very difficult to get an Imail machine to support just 20K web mesaging clients with a much more powerful box. eg, the guy running 250K accounts is not running web messaging, strictly POP3. Len http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message