topic Re: maile server in Operating System - Linux

maile server

Fadia Almarei — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 09:01:29 GMT

Dear All
i want version of free mailing servers( as qmail) that can run under linux ,i want information in how to determine the hardware needed for the application depending on number of accounts (comparisons).
BR,
Fadia

Re: maile server

Alessandro Pilati — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:07:42 GMT

Fadia,
what kind of Linux are speaking about?

Regards,
Alex

Re: maile server

Alessandro Pilati — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:10:20 GMT

Fadia,
Start with this link:

http://www.emailman.com/unix/servers.html

Re: maile server

Alessandro Pilati — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:30:22 GMT

(Sendmail) is the easiest to install and configure; the latest version is considered to be secure enough, and has a lot of advanced features.

(PostFix) is simple to install but doesn't provide the advanced features of QMAIL or SENDMAIL.

(Qmail) is considered to be the second most popular MTA,and seems to be very secure. Installation is difficult but once installed needs very few maintenance actions.

(Maildirs)

(Courier) Good IMAP Server

UNSURE mailservers:
(IMP) and (Squirrelmail)

Here it is a Sendmail versus Qmail benchmark:
http://www.benchmarks.dmz.ro/article.php?story=20020711175408345

http://www.benchmarks.dmz.ro/index.php?topic=LinMSB

Here some useful link for you:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/sendmail.htm

Regards,
Alex

Re: maile server

Fadia Almarei — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:20:59 GMT

it is redhat Enterprise Linux AS v.4

Re: maile server

Fadia Almarei — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:32:51 GMT

kindly send me any kind of mail servers even if not free,but that can run under Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.

Re: maile server

Alessandro Pilati — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:50:17 GMT

Fadia,
at the moment take this other site where you can select various mail server opinions.

http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/servers/article.php/16181_1578641

Regards,
Alex

Re: maile server

Fadia Almarei — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:56:28 GMT

Dear Alessandro
thanks very much for your help,i need another information about the hardware needed(statisticts) for installing any kind of these mail servers depending on number of acounts.

Re: maile server

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:24:42 GMT

Sendmail can easily handle hundreds of thousands of accounts. As far as performance goes, a sendmail is the leader of the pack, as far as knowledge, securability and other factors.

Any normal server cluster can handle a lot of sendmail users. The important factor is that there is enough memory in /var to handle all the temporary mail traffic and storage.

Other things to think about include access method. Do you want to use imapd, secure imapd, pop, or secure popmail.

Also understand that if this mail server runs any web based sendmail forms they must be secure.

SEP

Re: maile server

Fadia Almarei — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:27:15 GMT

thanks steve ,i know that , but i need statistics to add more support to my idea specially for the Qmail server.
BR

Re: maile server

Alessandro Pilati — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:24:21 GMT

Fadia,
I'm sorry but I wasn't able to find complete documents about various mail servers test with different hardwares, but only a few articles:

http://www.itwin.com.my/linux/mailserver.html

http://linuxgazette.net/issue56/dennis.html

The primary mail server benchmarks site is

www.benchmark.dmz.ro
but at the moment seems not running...

Sorry,
Alex

Re: maile server

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:05:52 GMT

There may be some case study info here:

http://www.sendmail.org

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/handle-generic-form/103-0412326-3783843?action=next-page&target=web-search/redirect.html&ws_page=&ws_position=3&ws_type=google_regular&url=http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html

SEP

Re: maile server

Fadia Almarei — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:49:09 GMT

i want a step by step documentaion in hoe to nstall Qmail server .kindly your help

Re: maile server

Guru Dutta — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:05:47 GMT

In my opinion send mail is the best bet...check out the following link for information regarding the same.

http://librenix.com/?inode=3823