MailEnable is OK, I used it for years, but the web interface was unstable and it could only handle a few hundred accounts on a dual Zeon Processor with 2GB of memory.  I stopped using it about 1 year ago and switched back to MDaemon that I had used 6 years ago.  It scales much better as we have 2000 email accounts on it on a dual 700Mhz processor with 1 GB of RAM.
 
For mail servers, use RAID 0 or RAID 10 for faster disk access.  The faster the harddrives, the faster the mail server runs as they constantly read/write from the hard drive.
 
I also like the fact that MDaemon uses SQL Server backend, so it runs off my database server, so if my mail server crashes, I still have everyone's information and can turn on MDaemon on another server for redundancy.  As I said, much more scalable than MailEnable.  They also have a webmail skin that looks like the Exchange Web interface (Outlook).  Comes with listserver, ldap server, IMAP, and a built in spam filter that is updated weekly.
 
My license of MDaemon is coming up for renewal next month, so I'm looking again.  If your small, then you can't beat the price of mailenable, but as you grow you will have to buy more and more licenses and install on other machines.
 
Jacob Cameron
Blue Lantern, Inc.
(972) 226-9595
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.bluelantern.com
 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Shaw
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:35 AM
To: Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List
Subject: [DFW CFUG] Mail servers

We are going to update our mail server. Of course, for a small business, cost is always a concern.  We have tried to find a Coldfusion solution that will allow users to set up their own users, but have not had much luck. We are looking at a piece of software called MailEnable.
 
Any comments or suggestions on mail server software. We definitely are not interested in Exchange server
 
 
Robert Shaw
972-463-3515
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