Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Shenton
robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have a look at qmail, It is very scalable and well supported with various sites and mailing lists. Iv'e been using it for well over a year now. Most important thing, IMHO, is uptime. If you use the Maildir mailbox format you can put it on a solid NFS server

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-17 Thread DAve
Chris Shenton wrote: robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have a look at qmail, It is very scalable and well supported with various sites and mailing lists. Iv'e been using it for well over a year now. Most important thing, IMHO, is uptime. If you use the Maildir mailbox format you can put it

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-11 Thread Duane Whitty
Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email, to a few local business. Right now I

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a Maildir without shutting down the SMTP, POP, or IMAP server. With

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-09 Thread Jan Grant
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: I have only a small amount of experience with Cyrus. However: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup Based on that document, it appears as if you're dodging the bullet with backups. My interpretation is that Cyrus keeps mailboxes in

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a Maildir without shutting down the

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: [snip] I have only a small amount of experience with Cyrus. However: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup Based on that document, it appears as if you're dodging the bullet with

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Postfix + Cyrus IMAPd ... Cyrus IMAPd has built-in virtual domain support ... only solution I've used for almost 10 years now ... On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread robert
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 00:45 -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email,

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Bill Moran
Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email, to a few local

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Duane Whitty writes: My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. Although there isn't much traffic, people to read it, and so far the advice I have gotten from that list is pretty good.

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Moran writes: One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a Maildir without shutting down the SMTP, POP, or IMAP server. For a small/simple setup I think Maildir is most definitely the way to go.

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bill Moran wrote: One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a Maildir without shutting down the SMTP, POP, or IMAP server. With both mbox and the Cyrus mail system, you have to

OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-07 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. To the point: I'm about to provide hosting services, including but not limited to email, to a few local business. Right now I have Sendmail