Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:39:36 -0500 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server recommendations? Message-ID: <407B44D8.9070106@buckhorn.net> In-Reply-To: <20040412173824.GC13343@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20040412173824.GC13343@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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If you want something quick, easy and commercial, have a look at surgemail from netwinsite.com. Has everything you want, and is very reasonably priced. ($770.00 US for unlimited users) It won't scale well ~10k users per box (YMMV depending on hardware), but it can be clustered. Whole thing can be configured and running in under an hour. You get a really nice webmail interface, and the ability to "delegate" control. Very nice if you don't want to manage hosted domains. For open source solutions, we've had killer results with postfix/amavisd-new/spamassassin/f-prot, courier-imap and teapop. All can be used with a number of db's, from berkeley to oracle. We have one corporate client comfortably running this config on P3 1ghz with 256mb of RAM. The ~18,000 users are controled by SAP (SAP has a FreeBSD client for DB access) I noticed Communigate mentioned in this thread. It's a killer product, but too expensive. They don't lie when they say it scales well. One of the installs we've done has 9,000 users on a K6 2 500... Bob Michael W. Lucas wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've already tried Google, and found a lot of discussions that are > either a) old, or b) don't quite match our requirements. So: > > I'm looking for a decent solution for a mail server software package. > We need SASL, IMAP, pop3ssl, antivirus, and mime-type filtering. In > an ideal world, we'd have the ability to create mail accounts without > creating user accounts. > > I have to admit that I'm partial to sendmail simply for the milter > interface that lets me plug in, say, MIMEDefang, clamav, and all sorts > of other nifty stuff. > > What are people using these days? What sucks the least? Any opinions > from folks who have been there welcome. > > Thanks, > ==ml >
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