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Hi All

I need some advise, we currently have an mweb mail server installed at our premises that caters for 200+ users
since friday it has been down and now mweb say they may have to take the unit away. we cant afford for it to be down any longer.

Any suggestions on a mail system for us to use?

- Something that can be managed in house
- Caters for 200+ users
- Preferably a linux solution
- Has a web interface but can also be linked to mail clients.


Thanks in advance
 
Try having a look at Zimbra.

The Network Edition supports on the fly backups etc, and scales to whatever extent you need.

We run the OS Edition, which doesn't have on the fly backups, but I have a backup script which brings the server down for all of 2 minutes to finish a backup of 20+ GB of email. We currently only have 125 users, but it barely feels those users.

It has a reasonably decent Webmail interface, and supports IMAP and POP3 protocols.
 
Hmmm oki will give them a look , thanks. I have seen the google apps which seems like a great option
 
graviti said:
Try having a look at Zimbra.

The Network Edition supports on the fly backups etc, and scales to whatever extent you need.

We run the OS Edition, which doesn't have on the fly backups, but I have a backup script which brings the server down for all of 2 minutes to finish a backup of 20+ GB of email. We currently only have 125 users, but it barely feels those users.

It has a reasonably decent Webmail interface, and supports IMAP and POP3 protocols.
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a 20GB backup in 120 seconds ? Only way it's gonna go that fast is if it's a backup to local disk or USB3 ext hdd ? Somehow doubt it is fibre or 10gbe.

Also, a mere 20GB email DB for 125 users ? That is minute, or do you have some archiving solution ?
 
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ADRAM3L3CH said:
Hi All

I need some advise, we currently have an mweb mail server installed at our premises that caters for 200+ users
since friday it has been down and now mweb say they may have to take the unit away. we cant afford for it to be down any longer.

Any suggestions on a mail system for us to use?

- Something that can be managed in house
- Caters for 200+ users
- Preferably a linux solution
- Has a web interface but can also be linked to mail clients.


Thanks in advance
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I haven't tried with 200+ users but Kerio Connect works very nicely.

http://www.kerio.com/connect
 
Googleapps,Hosted exchange if you are a Microsoft fan ( integrates easily with Office and Office365 ) or Zimbra for onsite. Kerio was a pretty good Exchange alternative for Windows and I see it runs on Linux now too
 
i would use Google Apps and Postini (if you need archiving). No more worries about managing servers, spam, viruses etc....
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
i would use Google Apps and Postini (if you need archiving). No more worries about managing servers, spam, viruses etc....
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My personal beef with online solutions is this. Sending emails between the users all go through the internet which increases the internet bandwidth significantly (and decreases speed as these emails will hit other traffic). With a large number of users this can become a real problem. Also, any problems with the internet will also break internal mails.
 
ADRAM3L3CH said:
wow Kerio looks very promising Abe, thanks!
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One more thing to be aware of. It can be a little bit slow for users that have more than 6000 odd items in a single folder. We have one user (MD) at one of our clients and she has a 10GB odd mailbox. We have to keep telling her to break up her sent items into smaller blocks. She says the system hangs for about 30 seconds and when you connect, you see 20k of items in her sent mail folder.

Edit: This is only with the Outlook connector
 
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ClearOS or SME Server.

They got everything in one.

Email/Webmail
Webserver/FTP server
Content filtering (ClearOS)
Email scanning (antivirus)
And much more.

ClearOS got a GUI interface, but can be installed without one.
SME Server is CLI only.

Both can be administrated via any proper web browser.
 
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