Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:07:39 -0600 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Looking for advise regarding MTA/IMAP/POP server Message-ID: <20080214200739.GA64157@sysmon.tcworks.net>
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I've been trying to find the time to install a Postfix/Cyrus-IMAP server for a year now. I currently have one Postfix/Courier-IMAP server where I like Postfix. Courier does it's job but I don't particularly care for it. I have another Sendmail/IMAP-UW server where I don't *like* anything but can get along with Sendmail. IMAP-UW is, well, IMAP-UW. The biggest issue is the migration of the data from three existing servers. In the interests of just getting it done, I've been looking at commercial alternatives. I've run across SurgeMail by NetWin which is only $670 for the license level that we would need. Their Anti-Virus add on license is slightly more expensive, but I already have a cluster of Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall boxes sitting out in front. NetWin has been around a while and they claim to have an auto-migration feature. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have a high opinion of FreeBSD 4 through 6 for server processes such as their's which use both forking and threads. So, I'm looking for other ISP's experiences with SurgeMail, preferably on FreeBSD, or similar type packages that make migration simple. We have around 8,000 e-mail accounts and have about a little under 200 domains. How do you like the logs for finding out which of your users is infected with the mass-mailing virus of the week, or being able to tell the customer that the message they claim is lost on the server was received at blah blah time and the customer's work computer, with IP address blither, deleted the message from the server at blah blah time. One of our existing mail servers, which came from an acquisition, has lots of logs but it is almost impossible to follow a message completely through the system. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org
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