Re: mail server recommendations?

From: Chris Shenton (chris_at_shenton.org)
Date: 04/13/04

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    To: Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:33:56 -0400

    Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> writes:

    > We have sold Communigate Pro (http://www.ish.com.au/communigate) to
    > customers with up to 30,000 accounts. Others run up to 100,000 on a
    > single server, more in a cluster. It runs great on FreeBSD and that is
    > the combination we usually recommend and use ourselves. It costs
    > money, but you didn't say whether you wanted a free or commercial
    > product.

    I plugged qmail-ldap in an earlier message, but in a previous
    life^H^H^H^H job we deployed Communigate Pro (on Solaris)-: and it was
    rock-solid and handled pretty heavy loads without burdening the server
    much. Good responsive online tech support and bug-fixes, feature
    additions. IMHO their web gui's a bit ... uh... primitive, but it's
    useable.

    At another ISP we supported, we deployed Mirapoint mail appliances and
    they were fine too, but I don't have much direct hands-on experience
    with them.

    Both are worthy commercial offerings, and I think better than most
    other commercial alternatives. Check communigate's web for some
    interesting tech-rag reviews and comparisons with other products.

    I would definitely advocate some kind of fault-tolerant architecture,
    whether it's tight clustering, loosely-coupled federation (qmail-ldap
    with shared NFS mailstore), or whatnot. Email's dead critical to
    users and you can't afford downtime. It's really sweet to be able to
    take down one MTA/SMTP/POP/IMAP/LDAP box in the middle of the day for
    an upgrade, and have no one notice. :-)
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