> 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users