On May 16, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Michael da Silva Pereira wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I have a couple of ideas for my own home built exim mail cluster, I
> wonder
> if the people of the list can't comment on the ideas:
>
> 1.) Exim will save all mails to a SNAP server over the net using NFS.
> 2.) Exim is going to use a SQL server for authetication.
> 3.) Qpopper works with the SQL server for auth and will be hosted on a
> different server. (problem is no imap support :(
Will echo Nigel's comments on this: Qpopper is not hot. Use Maildirs.
Also, SQL sounds at first glance like a great choice but its actually
not depending on the number of users you have to deal with.
Personally, I use OpenLDAP for the user db, with Courier-IMAP for
POP3 and IMAP access, Exim (of course) and Maildirs saved on a big
EMC NFS system. Works great.
If you're dead set on the SQL route, the above works fine with MySQL
and the Virtual Exim (
http://silverwraith.com/vexim/ ) admin package
is a great start for most needs. They recommend a differen pop3
daemon, but really courier-imap is the best.
lastly, use Exiscan-ACL to do your Virus/Spam scanning - now included
free in exim!. ClamAV is a great free AV engine that you can use.
Good luck with it all :)
Regards,
Nathan.
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