Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:43:29 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail Server & Adduser Message-ID: <3A631AA1.1AC89C7C@mail.iowna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101150931350.29922-100000@squid.tznet.com>
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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
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