> The company I work for has been running exchange 5.5. We have had corrupt
> databases multiple times with this exchange server. It has been decided
> that this exchange server needs to be replaced. I have setup a
> postfix+procmail+dovcot-imap+spamassassin+squirrelmail server and have
> migrated some of our major exchange server users mailboxes over to this
> server for testing purposes. My bosses like squirrelmail allot. My next
> step is to let the users test it out. We are looking at going completely
> webmail based for the MUA in our company using squirrelmail. We have
> around 35 users and only 6 gigs of email. My guess is we send and receive
> as a whole on average about 300 emails a day total.
>
> Does anyone think going completely webmail based using squirrelmail for
> the MUA is a bad idea? Does anyone have any thoughts on this at all? Is
> there anyone in this mailing list that has done this before? If so I would
> love to hear about how it has worked out.
>
>
> I will be running this server on a PE2650, raid 5, single xeon 2.4Ghz,
> with 1 gig of ram. I think this server can handle what I need it for easy
> enough. Does anyone see this differently?

Advice No.1. Use Cyrus IMAP or any other setup that uses Maildirs.
http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/

You have machine that might have some space CPU cycles, but that is not
the excuse to waste those cycles in unoptimized webmail setup.

I think dovencot-IMAP uses default unix mail spool and stores emails in
mbox format. mbox has lower bottlenecks than maildir.

No 2. http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/SquirrelMailPerformance

No 3. http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/WindowsMailto

No 4. RAID1 or any serious backup solution. If your raid array breaks, you
will lose all your mail.

-- 
Tomas


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