Thanks for the reply! they are only familiar with POP, since that's all the current provider provides I though 125 was a rather small number of mailboxes, but I've only built Exchange servers for more than 20~ish users. > 125 E-mail accounts is a rather negligible number. Processor type doesn't > matter, but give it a decent amount of RAM (512; 1GB if you want to do > decently-fast spam and AV filtering). Depending on if you plan to go POP > or > IMAP, I'd recommend doing something like a RAID1 array of 2 or 3 SATA hard > drives; scale the size depending on how much mail you want to let people > keep on the server. External USB drives work great for backups (read up on > spare devices w/ RAID, if you can get a large enough external). I also > like > to have my servers send tarballs to each other, and have a central backup > server, but that might be overkill for your situation. > Yeah, I COULD build it myself, but this isn't really about money, except when you have to buy a server, OS license, Exchange License, and 125 CALs. Then, it doesn't really have any appeal. The Dell is what I was looking at, since it comes with warranty etc. All the workstations are Dell's so they have some comfort there.
> If you're looking at buying hardware, I'd recommend something like a Dell > SC-series (1425 if you want rack-mounting, they're nice). I find they can > do > the hardware a lot more cost-effectively then anyone else (even building > it) > as long as you don't mind using strictly Intel processors. > So, what would you use? I'd like to have IMAP, Pop, and Webmail (I use squirrelmail at home) (and of course spamassasin, and clamAV...) > In my experience, I'd stay away from qmail for e-mail purposes, but hey, > it's all about freedom. > > > On 7/31/06, Dennis McLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I recently took a job at an employeer that has NO domain structure, just >> a bunch of 2000 and XP boxes in a workgroup. >> Email is hosted outside (about 125 accounts), as is the website. >> The email is thrown in as part of the website package, but they are >> going to change providers again, and are going to have to migrate these >> accounts to the new provider. >> I'm exploring what it would take to move email inside. >> I'm curious what hardware you build on. Do you buy Dell, HP, build your >> own, or do something else? >> What level of hardware would you use for an email only server with this >> number of accounts? >> What if you added print and file services? >> What do you use for backup? >> I've not built a Linux server for a business, just at home for a couple >> of "hobby" domains (Currently CentOS 4.3 with a QmailRocks install). >> Gentoo has only been on my desktop.... >> I have built LOTS of MS servers (enough that I can recite the license >> keys...), but don't feel much like giving them the $$$ for this. (or >> anything else, really, in the future) >> Thanks in advance for any input. >> Dennis >> >> >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] mailing list >> >> > -- [email protected] mailing list
