On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:31:14PM +0000, Kaya Saman wrote: > I don't think the response was assumed as such. It just is that there are so > many issues with corporate politics and higher ups thinking they know things > that gives OpenSource software a bad rep! Even once people didn't understand > what OpenSource was and asked me what I did while 'working at OpenSource' > lol > > > As to different H/W yes there are still some different systems around... > like IBM PowerPC P-series based systems, Oracle SPARC, I think HP's own UX > capable machines are dead now; though my info could be several years out of > date as I haven't dealt with this type of system in a long time. > > > Agreed that Cloud is a lot of corporate hype in many aspects as to lower > expenditure. > > > Will you be building just the mail server or the whole infrastructure?? >
As of right now, I will have to take on everything, which is an extremely daunting task. There have been three times in the past year that staff and volunteers either left on their own or a few were found to be more troublesome than helpful. Things are a real mess right now, so my first task is just to get the website, which right now is a disaster, working good enough to keep both members and volunteers communicating and an inflow of donations coming in. WordPress was an awful decision made right before I joined. But it's hard to select the right software. Having a forum is a must, and due to both trolls and crazy people deliberately making destructive types of posts, the forum has now been removed to members only to allow for reasonable and private discussions. The website is dead slow right now and that has to be fixed quickly. I don't have all the details of exactly what is or isn't installed yet. A board meeting is about to happen and then I should be able to check out the mess. I'm planning on moving to just delivering the content and who cares if it's pretty or not. As long as it's much faster. I just need some guidance along the way. RTFM these 250 manual pages is the right way, except that actions need to happen fast. This really is a case of do things sorta the wrong way and fix it ASAP, or don't do anything and then the SHTF. I want everything done in the end really well and secure, but no donations, no volunteers and no new members or no renewing members equals no organization. That's bad. Thanks for your suggestions. I didn't think other architectures would be suitable, but it was worth asking. Chris Bennett > > Virtually what you want to do is a good firewall protecting everything. > OpenBSD excels at security so definitely recommended. As to mail server, I > really think you need to research the different components first that make > up the system. > > Firstly for power reasons what type of usage do you estimate? > > Will you be needing a separate external mail gateway? > > Does your ISP offer Reverse DNS? > > > After that the best thing to do would be to setup a small lab with a test > machine and try different setups out. Like say using Sendmail, Postfix > etc.... for SMTP. Many people here have different opinions and takes on this > but really it is up to you to decide what you like best and also what you > need it to do - you can only find that out by testing out different things. > > Then how your users will connect... IMAP, POP, HTTP?? In todays day and age > IMAP is the preferred protocol but there of course are others - please do > not ever mention M$ Exchange as it should be obliterated! > > > Once you understand the core components necessary then you will start to > formulate specific questions of how/why is (x) needed etc... then answers > can be more specific too but for now read a lot and test out different > things to see which one fits you best :-) > > > Regards, > > > Kaya > >
