Re: a good mail server

[Irwan Hadi <irwanhadi@phxby.engr.usu.edu>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:48:23PM -0500, neal hamilton wrote:

> I have never worked with email servers before, but my boss has asked my
> team to look into a solution to replace our exchange server with a open
> source unix smtp,pop-3 and imap solution. Currently we have 8 email
> servers in a cluster to support about 60,000 employees. The servers are
> amd 1.5 ghz athlons with 60 gig drives and 1 gig pc-2100 memory. We are
> tired of chasing down viruses in our MS environment so we have decided
> to eliminate MS and find another solution. Our users are using the
> groupware features on exchange, so we have been looking at
> http://www.phprojekt.com to fill this need but still have not found a
> good email server to complement it. We will be using OpenBSD 3.1 for the
> os. Again we need clustering, imap,pop3 and smtp capabilities. I just
> wanted to get some suggestions from you guys so I can start to granulize
> my search.

I don't know whether the employee in your company use Exchange
extensively or not, but I think the better idea is to try Novell
Groupwise.
The Novell Groupwise can run on many platform, such as Linux, Win NT,
Novell Netware, etc. and it already has built in support for POP3,
IMAP4, etc.

[setuping Novell Groupwise on Netware for Utah State University - Career Service]