Re: a good mail server

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:08:24 +1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) Juha Saarinen <juha <at> saarinen.org> wrote:
> Don't know about clustering, but a combination of Exim and Courier-IMAP
> has worked well for us in the past few years.

any of exim, postfix, or qmail can probably handle this load, although you
will probably want to built multiple mx hosts for inbound, and may also
want to distribute outbound across multiple outbound relays if there's a
lot of load. i like exim, personally, but qmail and postfix are both well
regarded MTAs.

the more important thing is the pop/imap handling. you should definitely
look at Courier (as Juha mentioned) and at Cyrus (as another post
mentions). this is going to be the key performance problem, not the MTA
piece.

> Groupware features such as group scheduling will be tricky to replace
> though.

i'm not familiar with any good open source group schedulers. there are some
Un*x schedulers out there that are supposedly pretty good, but nothing
that's free.

richard
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