On 03/17/2012 09:51 PM, Spyros Tsiolis wrote:
Hi,
I am currently in the process of setting up an IMAP repository for round 100
users....
Currently the user authentication method is being handled via a Windows Domain
Controller.
The host OS for Dovecot will either be FreeBSD or CentOS.
Would Dovecot be able to authenticate to either the DC directly or would we
need to go through LDAP??
Additionally
what would be the best method to store the **mail** information? - as
in MySQL database or Maildir format; coinciding with this what is the
best backup method in order to be able to do 'dump' backups or restore
single emails??
Can anyone give me a hand with this?
Regards,
Kaya
Hi Kaya,
I can't force you to follow a specific path.
All I can do, is tell you my experience on this.
Using Dovecot for IMAP, XMail for POP3/SMTP, Horde for
Webmail, OpenLDAP for LDAP (no windows software
there) and CentOS v5.5 32-bit onwards.
User base is about 30 users.
System uptime without a glitch reached at some point
(had to reboot the server for maintenance reasons) about
200 days. I am sure it would go beyond 365 days.
Hope this helps,
spyros
----
"I merely function as a channel that filters
music through the chaos of noise"
- Vangelis
Thanks for that Spyros!
Regards,
Kaya
