Joe Aldeguer said: > So, I am looking into possibly using SquirrelMail to provide web mail > access > for our website members it is currently running on a Dell 2400 Power Edge > dual processor, scsi, 60 GIG HD, 1.5 Gig RAM using White Box Linux 3.0 ES > for my OS.
Specs are pretty good, may want to add more ram eventually and the storage should really be at least RAID1 for a server that 4000 people rely on for email... > I have read the FAQ's for enhancing SQM performance which I > intend > to use. I will be using the latest Postfix with MYSQL for my MTA with > spamassasin > handling spam including clamav for virus filtering all in one box due to > budget limitations. What IMAP Server? I've found this is the biggest performance factor for a mail server, at least in terms of what the user experiences (i.e. they rarely notice if an email takes 5 minutes instead of 30 seconds to be delievered but they definitely notice if it takes 30 seconds to login and see their INBOX of 3000 messages). I'd stay away from UW-IMAP at all costs. Look into Courier or Cyrus for a reliable, fast IMAP Server. > > Do you currently use SquirrelMail to handle web mail for thousands of > users? ~1500 fac/staff and students for a small university. We're running Courier and Squirrelmail on a 1.5ghz P4, 768mb ram, 40gb IDE RAID1. Not the best specs for a server but it runs like a champ. > What > issues have you run into and what have you done to resolve them. Any > suggestions, > ideas to meet this undertaking will be appreciated even being RTFM'ed : ) Courier and Squirrelmail have proven to be quite stable. Not to many issues. Do some testing before opening it up to 4000 people (maybe a beta group?), Keep good backups, use the server regularly yourself to keep an eye out for performance issues or problems. Jay -- Jay Lee Network / Systems Administrator Information Technology Dept. Philadelphia Biblical University -- To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible --Calvin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
