Give me a call if you like Steven. I have set up Mac Mail Servers for
many of my clients over the years. The most recent version of Mac OS X
Server 10.5.5 provides a robust and mature mail service which includes
POP, IMAP, authenticated SMTP and Webmail.
IMAP does most of what you require. It's important that the IMAP
storage be somewhere secure and backed up. I like to put in on a RAID
drive and back up to tape for offsite. I also like to have the server
running on powerful iron. A Mac Pro or X-Serve makes a fine mailserver.
Of course all this starts adding up in price. With SCSI card and a
good tape drive it's easy to spend 10K on a mailserver and I've done
that for people with those budgets. The last X-Serve I did with an X-
Serve RAID and has been running like a train providing mail for 30
users for 2 years now without a hitch. Only ever gets restarted for
software updates and often goes months without a reboot. If your
budget doesn't run to that kind of level you can make a perfectly
reliable server using a second hand G5 or even a Mac Mini provided
it's properly backed up.
Call me at Team Digital if you like - 9328 3377
Rob
On 20/10/2008, at 7:48 PM, Steven Knowles wrote:
I'm looking for some advice in terms of setting up a corporate email
environment on the Mac platform (but catering for users of other
platforms who would be potentially anywhere).
I'm quite familiar with pop email accounts, understand the concept
of IMAP (I think). But I haven't really been involved with email
servers and the like, which I think is probably what I need. I'm
familiar with having a standalone Mac, and popping email from my
email host (NetRegistry).
However I'm now using mailboxes which I need to allow communal
access to - potentially several people accessing the communal
mailboxes in the future. I also need to have a system whereby
although I set up an indovidual user's personal email account, the
business still retains copies of those emails. I imagine I could use
NetRegistry and set up an IMAP account, but then I am reliant on a
3rd party entirely, including for storage of our email. I'm not
totally comfortable with that. So does this mean I need to set up an
email server of our own, with accompanying back up solutions? If so,
can someone give me an idea of the hardware & software requirements,
rough idea of costs?
Or does it sound like I need to engage a networking specialist to
solve all of my problems? Are there any networking specialists
amongst wamug people? (I trust a Mac user's advice! :-)
Cheers, Steven
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