On Dec 11, 2007 1:47 PM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007, at 12:49 PM, crypticreign wrote: > > > I would suggest the open source edition of Zimbra (or pay, if you > > want to) for all your mail needs. > > > > I just converted to it at my company and it's been heaven. Very > > fast, feature-rich, and a breeze to manage. It even has a gorgeous > > supped up webmail ala yahoo or gmail. > > > Zimbra is nice, if you throw big enough hardware at it and dedicate a > system to it. > > We're running it at work now, and it's a dream, but we also have it > running on an 8-CPU 2.6 GHz Xeon with 16GB RAM and a 10-drive SAS RAID > array underneath it. Needless to say, it's faster'n'hell. > > Our test system was a dual 3.6 GHz Xeon (32-bit only) and we ran into > serious issues with tomcat crashing when a message bigger than ~20MB > would get delivered. Since solved on 64-bit (no 2GB tomcat heap > limit), but the base problem is still there in the 4.x series. > Hopefully it's resolved in the forthcoming 5.x series. > > Zimbra is nice, but it's certainly not a lightweight. >
I should have mentioned this in the first place, but we have the option (and one I am considering) of going with a load balanced solution. In fact, we will be adding LVS for our web farm and there is always the possibility of using it for other services. I will be looking at Zimbra later this evening, but all other input about Zimbra and other solutions (load balanced and not) is certainly welcome and encouraged Our basic philosophy is to do things right the first time. The company is new, and we want to get things right early in our life, and not have to fix things later because we fscked up in the first place. I have been given the full support of the CEO to see that we do things right, so I want to make sure I pick the right stuff now that will allow us to scale without headaches and extra costs in time and money. It sounds like Zimbra may need some hardware to run on. It sounds like a single dual core Opteron may not be enough? PGA -- Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE Network Administrator Greenest Host www.greenesthost.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
