From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 12 18:39:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945F716A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:39:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail13.txucom.net (mail13.txucom.net [207.70.175.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E21C43D4C for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:39:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@buckhorn.net) Received: (qmail 22459 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2004 01:39:41 -0000 Received: from lfkn-adsl-dhcp-net1-197.txucom.net (HELO buckhorn.net) ([207.70.145.197]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.txucom.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 13 Apr 2004 01:39:41 -0000 Message-ID: <407B44D8.9070106@buckhorn.net> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:39:36 -0500 From: Bob Martin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael W. Lucas" References: <20040412173824.GC13343@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20040412173824.GC13343@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail server recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 01:39:45 -0000 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 >