From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 7:47: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0897737B698 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:46:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0FFiUp08119; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:44:30 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A631AA1.1AC89C7C@mail.iowna.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:43:29 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Server & Adduser References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Pilz wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Hell, a 486-66 with Ultra-Slow drives would be find for 5 Million users > > - if they don't send much mail. More important is going to be how much > > mail do these folks really send around?? > > We're currently looking at a limit of 10 Megs/sending and a quota of > around 10-15 megs for POP3 accounts. Generally, most users will average at > around 500k or below in their mailbox at any given time. I think you'll be fine. > > I did this when we switched from Exchange Server to qmail (God was that > > a worthwhile thing to do!) Just exported the Exchange user database into > > a comma-delimited file and wrote a perl script to use that file to add > > all the users. (and I don't even know perl) > > The virtual domain setup for qmail has a single command, vadduser, that > > allows you to add a user in 1 step, very nice! > > I guess I have a few questions on Qmail, it does sound like a better way > to go. I'm assuming that this program is free and supports just as many, > if not more email accounts than Qpop? It's pretty quick as well? How does > it handle quota, is there a way to set the maximum mailbox size? qmail has advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I think it's more difficult to setup, but once it's running, it's nice to no have to create a user account for every email address. Yup, free, I don't remember the exact license, visit www.qmail.org and do your own research. No limit on users that I know of. Yes, it handles quotas, I think the default hardcoded quota is 10M, but you can set quotas independently for each account if you like. We've never had performance problems, however we have a dedicated 300mhz machine handling only about 300 accounts, with medium traffic. I suggest you read up on it (site listed above) and make a decision based on what you find. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message