Enterprise mail server

[WipeOut]

Chris Mason wrote:

>I'm looking for feedback on experiences of implementing an enterprise mail
>server with IMAP and webmail, preferably groupware, on our Dual Xeon Fedora
>server. We currently have sendmail, uw-imap, squirrelmail, in standard
>Redhat configuration, and we are having huge load problems as the present
>setup is not capable of supporting the needs of our users. Large mail
>folders bring the server to it's knees. We only have 25 users but they
>travel and use the mail system as a filing system, routinely saving 10MB
>emails and never cleaning up old mail. 
>
>We also need more groupware type features such as file sharing, messaging
>and calendaring. I am looking at Binari, Groupwise, Surgemail, and
>opengroupware which would involve more work to implement for me. 
>
>If you have spent time researching mail and groupware I would love some
>feedback to save me time and help me find a suitable application.
>
>Chris Mason
>
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>
Chris,

I noticed that you have looked at Surgemail, I have been running 
Surgemail for about a year on a P4 box that also runs a web server and 
MySQL.. I have to say it is an incredibly flexible system and Netwin are 
happy to add services and config options to it, for example I have one 
mail domain that gets it used accounts from a MySQL DB.. I only have 
about 15 mailboxes but the server load sits at 0.01 most of the time and 
that includes doing spam filtering (about 500 per day are blocked on my 
personal account)..

I haven't used the Surgeplus groupware features because we didn't need 
them but I would imagine they are just as good..

If you have any questions about it feel free to contact me off list 
since its not really relevant to FC..

Something else you may want to look at is a system called Qmailtoaster 
(www.qmailtoaster.com) which I have tested in the past but then opted 
for Surgemail..

Later..