Highly agree on the qmail it works very well to send high volume emails.
Does not crash...
On 5/31/06, Joe Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you are considering open source, look at Qmail. I have not used it
myself but have heard very good things.
http://www.qmailrocks.org/
Also open source is BlueQuartz. They have a great user interface for
managing users, subusers, domain administrators, etc...
http://bluequartz.org/
Of course, you would have to set up these on an individual server.
Thanks,
Joe Kelly
On 5/31/06, Jacob Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
>
> 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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