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suppose you have to provide mail hosting as ISP for 100 000 users ....
pop3 mailboxes, mail forvarding, aliases, and all the "ususaly"
services to mail users .... how to build that on Linux ... what
distibution and software to use ....
also, same question regarding web hosting ...
I would appreciate any hint ...
THX in advance
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| Jean-David Beyer 2006-07-26, 7:13 am |
| JAJA wrote:
> question:
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> suppose you have to provide mail hosting as ISP for 100 000 users ....
> pop3 mailboxes, mail forvarding, aliases, and all the "ususaly"
> services to mail users .... how to build that on Linux ... what
> distibution and software to use ....
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> also, same question regarding web hosting ...
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> I would appreciate any hint ...
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If you have to do that, and are serious, then I suggest something like Red
Hat Enterprise Linux, one of its clones (e.g., CentOS), or SuSE's
equivalent. You do not necessarily want state-of-the-art, such as Fedora;
you will want and your users will need, reliable, stable, systems that you
do not have to upgrade every 6 months. In Red Hat's case, they support each
release for seven years.
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| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> JAJA wrote:
> If you have to do that, and are serious, then I suggest something
> like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, one of its clones (e.g., CentOS), or
> SuSE's equivalent. You do not necessarily want state-of-the-art, such
> as Fedora; you will want and your users will need, reliable, stable,
> systems that you do not have to upgrade every 6 months. In Red Hat's
> case, they support each release for seven years.
Thx for replay ... can you help me how to find some documentation
regarding how to implement thos solution ... is there (in the wild ;-)
any documentation how to configure the system an maybe most important,
how to dimension hardware resources ...
THX in advance
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| Jean-David Beyer 2006-07-26, 1:15 pm |
| JAJA wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
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> Thx for replay ... can you help me how to find some documentation
> regarding how to implement thos solution ... is there (in the wild ;-)
> any documentation how to configure the system an maybe most important,
> how to dimension hardware resources ...
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Not me, but surely others can.
mailboxes can be handled by sendmail that comes with almost all
distributions, and definately with RHEL distributions. It talks pop3 if you
like. You can also put something like spamassassin in there to filter out a
lot of spam if your users wish that. If the users have logins on your
system, they can use various mail programs (e.g., mutt) to send and retrieve
e-mail. Probably they can use Thunderbird as well, though I never set up my
machine to do that.
Mostly, in other words, the stuff you will need probably will come with your
distribution. It will be a matter of learning how to do it. For sendmail,
there is a great book published by O'Reilly.
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| JAJA wrote:
> question:
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> suppose you have to provide mail hosting as ISP for 100 000 users ....
> pop3 mailboxes, mail forvarding, aliases, and all the "ususaly"
> services to mail users .... how to build that on Linux ... what
> distibution and software to use ....
>
> also, same question regarding web hosting ...
>
> I would appreciate any hint ...
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> THX in advance
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Just as a side note, take a look at Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS).
Just google. It's Open Source and comes in a commercial and freeware
flavor. Because it's a commercial package it is being actively
developed. I installed it a few weeks ago and it's really a nice
enterprise package. It supports virtual domains, has built-in
clustering, an awesome web client - but also speaks pop3 and even imap.
There's an Outlook connector for your MS users. It has the coolest
calendar and appointment interface I've ever seen, but you need their
web client to make the most of it. I have version 3.1 running on a
Fedora 4 box, 3.2 beta is available now as an rpm for FC5. It requires a
decent bit of hardware, but for the number of users you're talking about
you;ll need that anyway. Also it's mostly web administered and was truly
a piece of cake to get set up and working (and I'm no email expert).
Just one thing, set up your DNS records (MS and A) before you set up
ZCS. I think they have a package that will install everyting - FC4 and
ZCS - as binaries in an iso. Not sure if the free version comes that way.
....kurt
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| Kill Bill 2006-08-04, 1:15 pm |
| Kurt wrote:
> JAJA wrote:
> Just one thing, set up your DNS records (MS and A) before you set up
^^
That should be "MX" instead of "MS", meaning for eMail eXchange.
Cheers,
KB
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