The follow-up on MTA's was very good. Thank's to all. I should've asked about which MTA's are suggested for which Linux distributions. Or does it make any diff? The Linux platform we will be using has yet to be decided. We are leaning towards Ubuntu, as we are not Linux geeks (yet). Whichever distribution is is chosen, Apache, PHP, and MySQL will be requirements (for basic ecommerce).
I should have commented on expected message volume. The mail service will be for a small organization (appx 10 people in small non-profit). To be conservative I estimate five accounts plus five additional aliases per person, plus various system email accounts (supporting ecommerce, logging, etc). So around 100 accounts total will likely be max. And regarding organization size, not planning to grow much in near future but to be safe I am planning for doubling in all aspects. Diificult to predict email volume (besides spam). So I'm thinking fifty incoming messages and tweny-five outgoing messages per day. Cannot predict number and size of incoming/outgoing attachments (which I will try to limit by educating users in FTP and provide facilities to download/upload via http). So my MTA shortlist looks like postfix, sendmail and possibly Zimbra. Zimbra looks like quite the monster, much more than an MTA. I'm impressed by the AJAX tech. Does the Zimbra package behave gracefully if user managing/sending mail from a non-GUI or non-webmail email client? I'm thinking with this message volume we should be able to successfully implement spam filtering on the same machine? Or am I just wishing? I've observed different recommends on spamfiltering including SpamAssassin/amavisd-new, dspam, crm114, Bogofilter, and SpamBayes. Darren _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
