I would suggset what you have listed qmail which the combo you have is often called a qmail toaster...you can find more about how to do it on qmailrocks.org, in addition I would suggest utilizing www.opengroupware.org for the rest of you companies needs. I have started using this for my clients and everyone loves it! I am currently working on this scenerio in a failover capacity...once the clients primary server comes in :)
-brandon On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:38 -0500, Ryan Leathers wrote: > My company needs a new mail server. This server will support various > automation and workflow concerns as well as a light volume of customer mail. > It will be supported by my customer facing organization rather than the > Enterprise IT organization, so I have convinced the decision makers to let > me stray from the IT standard of Microsoft Exchange. Though I suspect the > volume of mail to be light, it must still be a highly reliable system. I > would love to be able to make the case for migrating the entire company away > from Exchange someday. > > My thought is to use qmail along with qtrap, clam av, and spam assassin. > I'm leaning toward qmail since I know it to be simple to set up and > administer. That's important since there will be no dedicated mail jockey. > I am also interested in running a second mail server, not for load > distribution, simply for redundancy against failure. This is where I have > the most questions. It seems clear to me that setting up two hosts as mail > exchangers and sharing between them via NFS is absolutely not what I need, > yet this is the solution I'm turning up when googling for redundant qmail. > The only way I can imagine this working is if NFS were offering a file > system from a 3rd reliable location to each of the two hosts. > > Does anyone have a good suggestion for me to create some redundancy using > only two hosts? FYI the hosts themselves are solid hardware with mirrored > disks. I also have LVS directors in place so that option is definitely on > the table in addition to MX record tricks if I can just determine how to get > the same data on both hosts. I'm also open to suggestions other than qmail > if there is a good redundancy story specific to some other solution. > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
