I need a new mailserver

I'm just going through an upgrade cycle on my current
(commercial) mailserver and discovered a nasty feature in
one of the upgrades: it ties the licence key with the MAC
address of one of my ethernet interfaces. This is making
me rethink the product itself, due to the inconvenience of
that in case of emergency server replacement, etc..

So I'm shopping for a possible replacement mailserver.
I need one with a good web-based client in addition to the
usual mailserver features (POP, IMAP, lists, aliases, etc.).
Anyone got any suggestions? I may even be willing to
run it on Linux or Mac instead of Windows. ;)

Preferably it will be a free mailserver, but it doesn't
have to be, so long as it isn't written by a control-freak.
I'd use Mercury Mail if it had a web-access feature. I've
started writing a webmail application for Mercury in Perl,
but it's too much work to complete it for this application.
(hundreds of users, so it needs to be pretty full-featured)


--
Daryl

Another World Is Possible

Re: I need a new mailserver

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Daryl writes:

> I'm just going through an upgrade cycle on my current
> (commercial) mailserver and discovered a nasty feature in
> one of the upgrades: it ties the licence key with the MAC
> address of one of my ethernet interfaces. This is making
> me rethink the product itself, due to the inconvenience of
> that in case of emergency server replacement, etc..
>
> So I'm shopping for a possible replacement mailserver.
> I need one with a good web-based client in addition to the
> usual mailserver features (POP, IMAP, lists, aliases, etc.).
> Anyone got any suggestions? I may even be willing to
> run it on Linux or Mac instead of Windows. ;)

All mainstream Linux distributions include a mail server (sendmail or
Postfix), an IMAP server (dovecot, Courier, or UW), a POP3 server (same),
the world's most popular web server - Apache, and some kind of a dinky
webmail app (Horde or Squirrelmail). It's all part of the package.

You can give a blank server to an experienced admin, and it'll be up and
running Linux, with all of the above, fully updated with the vendor's all
published errata patches, in less than two hours.

I suspect that you, on the other hand, will have a learning curve, and you
will need more than two hours to do the same. How much more, is something
that only you, yourself, would know.

> Preferably it will be a free mailserver, but it doesn't
> have to be, so long as it isn't written by a control-freak.

All Linux mail servers worth mentioning -- and all the other warez mentioned
above -- are free.


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Re: I need a new mailserver

Daryl wrote:
>=20
> Preferably it will be a free mailserver, but it doesn't
> have to be, so long as it isn't written by a control-freak.
> I'd use Mercury Mail if it had a web-access feature. I've
> started writing a webmail application for Mercury in Perl,
> but it's too much work to complete it for this application.
> (hundreds of users, so it needs to be pretty full-featured)
>=20

Mercury works with many available Webmail Interfaces like Squirrelmail.

--=20
mfg Chris
http://www.citosoft.com
MSI Zubehör und Ersatzteile

Re: I need a new mailserver

In article ,
sam@email-scan.com says...
>
>Daryl writes:
>
>> I'm just going through an upgrade cycle on my current
>> (commercial) mailserver and discovered a nasty feature in
>> one of the upgrades: it ties the licence key with the MAC
>> address of one of my ethernet interfaces. This is making
>> me rethink the product itself, due to the inconvenience of
>> that in case of emergency server replacement, etc..
>>
>> So I'm shopping for a possible replacement mailserver.
>> I need one with a good web-based client in addition to the
>> usual mailserver features (POP, IMAP, lists, aliases, etc.).
>> Anyone got any suggestions? I may even be willing to
>> run it on Linux or Mac instead of Windows. ;)
>
>All mainstream Linux distributions include a mail server (sendmail or
>Postfix), an IMAP server (dovecot, Courier, or UW), a POP3 server (same),
>the world's most popular web server - Apache, and some kind of a dinky
>webmail app (Horde or Squirrelmail). It's all part of the package.
>
>You can give a blank server to an experienced admin, and it'll be up and
>running Linux, with all of the above, fully updated with the vendor's all
>published errata patches, in less than two hours.
>
>I suspect that you, on the other hand, will have a learning curve, and you
>will need more than two hours to do the same. How much more, is something
>that only you, yourself, would know.

Thanks much. I reckon getting it up and running would be
a couple of hours, but the years of familiarisation and
customisation might take a little longer to duplicate.
At this point I think I will bite down on the bullet and
pay for one more year on the commercial mailserver, and
use that time to develop its replacement with something
like the above. I have a hundred users already familiar
with one product, and I don't want to have them all come
down the hallway with torches and pitchforks at once...

--
Daryl

Another World Is Possible