WebMail - Mail Server

On Mon, 31 May 2004 13:37:07 +0200, Leon wrote:

Lo Leon

I use Exim / Openwebmail on the mail server I admin and it works rather
well, squirrelmail uses imap as far as i know.

Openwebmail does the job nicely, and has a nice look / feel to it.

> Hi,
>
> Leon

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Leon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in setting up a email server that only allows access to
> email
> via a web based email client.
>
> Our company is looking at about 500 - 1000 new clients a month.
>
> Would running Squirrelmail be my best bet ?
> Which mail server would be best, postfix ?
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Leon
>
>
>
I use openwebmail on apache2 with sendmail/procmail, pretty happy with
it, you could do a search in google newsgroup, iirc this kind of
question has been answered a view time before with more explenation.

MPH
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Leon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am interested in setting up a email server that only allows access to
> email
> via a web based email client.
>
> Our company is looking at about 500 - 1000 new clients a month.
How many months are we talking about here? I mean 6 month - 6000
clients, 12 months 12.000 clients...is there a roof?
>
> Would running Squirrelmail be my best bet ?
Most likely. Large providers in Netherlands, such as xs4all use
squirrelmail and is seem all peachy. If you however have _no_ experience
with publically accessible webmail I suggest you go for external
contractors with x-perience in the area, since setting this up securely
and economically (backups etc.) is a serious piece of work and thinking.

> Which mail server would be best, postfix ?
The questions here are...for what? Is it publically accessible service?
How much e-mail trafic do you expect? Virus/ Spam filtering? What kind
of redundancy scenario do you have in mind? Do you want users to be able
to ssh and use text mail as well? What is your hardware budget?

If you want proper advice, the only one I can give you at the moment -
as I have mentioned above - outsource the contract to people who have
done this before, or generate a proper requirements document before
shooting questions.

Excuse me for the tone, but either do something properly, or don't do it
at all.

regards,
Ladislav.
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Leon
>
>
>
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