Have you considered http://www.google.com/a? Free, awesome, and ever-so-easy to administer. I just don't see the point of bothering with your own mail server.
On Jan 6, 2008 3:44 PM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I will probably have to design an e-mail (and other components) > infrastructure for a small ISP soon (WISP). > > I'm doing some research to determine which components would be best > to offer e-mail services to their client and allow the staff to manage > accounts easily. > > I usually use virtual machines a lot for isolation and easy backups > and migration (when a hardware node is underpowered, it is easy to > migrate one or more virtual machines to another hardware node easily). > > I have looked at iSCSI and drbd for high-availability of the > storage: > http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/82284/san-on-the-cheap/page1.html. > > This looks like it should be doing a great job of high availability > storage. > > For mail server, I guess I should look at an MTA and IMAP/POP > server that supports LDAP and/or MySQL for users. Postfix should be a > good choice for MTA, as I know it (at least a little, but I know > sendmail better). For IMAP/POP, I'm not sure... Would dovecot be > sufficient, or should I try cyrus. I'd rather use components that are > available for base or extras repository (or rpmforge). I think that > squirrelmail and horde would do a good job for webmail. > > There shoudn't be any troubles having some redundancy for DNS, web > servers, mtas, but what about IMAP/POP? linux-HA? MySQL replication > should be enough, I guess. Or maybe linux-HA as well. I wonder if I > should add GFS to the mix to have multiple IMAP/POP servers use the same > storage. Or maybe IMAP proxies? > > Any insights welcome :) . > > Ugo > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Dylan Oliver Primaverity, LLC -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
