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

2006-04-17 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 serv

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 hav

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

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 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

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 serve

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 shu

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. Fr

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. business

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 f

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

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-07 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

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 configured