FreeBSD MailServer

In article , "Wayne"
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently started working at an ISP who is running a Windows based
> mailserver. The admin of the mailserver is rather sticky about changing but
> clients and staff are constantly having problems connecting to it, it
> crashes etc.
>
> I have recently started working with FreeBSD (4. and have started playing
> with sendmail and qpopper.
>
> My question: Is this the right software to use for a small ISP (+/- 5000
> users)
> and will it work for my growing needs.


I would use postfix instead of sendmail (simpler, safer).
As far as I can say, Qpopper is a good choice for a small pool of users,
but while auditing different pop alternatives I was told that Qpopper is
not really fast. So I can't guaranty it will be a great choice for 5K+
users.
Another problem : qpopper doesn't handle virtual domains, and users have
to be true users of the system, you'll probabely want to avoid this

hth,
patpro
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Wayne wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have recently started working at an ISP who is running a Windows based
> mailserver. The admin of the mailserver is rather sticky about changing but
> clients and staff are constantly having problems connecting to it, it
> crashes etc.
>
> I have recently started working with FreeBSD (4. and have started playing
> with sendmail and qpopper.
>
> My question: Is this the right software to use for a small ISP (+/- 5000
> users)
> and will it work for my growing needs.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wayne.
>
>
I suggest you tu use Xmail mail server. easy to setup and maintain over
the web. Checkout here:
http://www.xmailserver.org

You don't need real users on the machine. This is just the brief:
XMail is an Internet and intranet mail server featuring an SMTP server,
POP3 server, finger server, multiple domains, no need for users to have
a real system account, SMTP relay checking, RBL/RSS/ORBS/DUL and custom
( IP based and address based ) spam protection, SMTP authentication (
PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 POP3-before-SMTP and custom ), a POP3 account
syncronizer with external POP3 accounts, account aliases, domain
aliases, custom mail processing, direct mail files delivery, custom mail
filters, mailing lists, remote administration, custom mail exchangers,
logging, and multi-platform code.
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