Hi, We have a small company with about 20-30 memebers and we are moving to a new office where we want our own dedicated mail server. Is there a recommended package for commercial deployment, we will probably be growing from out current size to about 100-150 people in about a years time and coule grow even bigger. I would want to start right so that I dont have to upgrade again. I am not a admin, but a developer since we dont have an admin, I will be performing their duties for now.

So my basic Q is how do I setup a linux server with a mail server good enough to grow to a size of 1000 users or more..

Can someone point me in the right direction or just give some pointers.


Is sendmail enough or you have get some other freely available mail severs?

Also what about http access, is there a package available for internet use.

Thanks..
Ankur

hi there

maybe u would like to setup qmail usng qmail toaster packages
or try webmail

also what do u maen by this "Also what about http access, is there a package available for internet use"

regards

Thanks for the reponse, I will try qmail or webmail...like u suggested, but whats the diff, why do you prefer qmail over sendmail? ease of use/setup or does it support larger number of users?

What i meant by that statement was that, I would like people to be able to access their accounts online, so is there a free web based client available for download that I can host at the same time with the mailserver..

Also do I need to do anything special once I have these setup for me to connect to the real world(internet).

Thanks
Ankur

hi there

i have seen that qmail is preferred over sendmail

also i thin the best solution for u will be webmail ,it will allow u to setup a web interface to get mails

regards

thanks again..i will look into webmail then...if i cant find it on the web, if you dont mind posting the link that would be great.

and thanks again for your help.
Ankur

here u go

http://openwebmail.org/
u need to configure postfix with this
http://www.postfix.org/

regards

Hi

I would suggest postfix over sendmail. it is very flexible and easier to configure than sendmail.

Courier imap combined with squirrelmail works great for me, i am running a mailservice where people can connnect via imap, pop3 or http over squirrelmail.

I dont know about the scalabilty of courier though. some peolple say that you should go for cyrus for a really big userbase.

See this great howto on getting it running on gentoo, it pretty much applies for any distro i think.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml

regards

Brian

Thanks a lot, I would have to try it out in a small env sometime this week.

Hi,

I would suggest to use Bynari Insight server...which has a lots of facilities...goto ..www.bynari.com