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wtl

12-12-2002, 08:12 PM

Hi,

I've had sendmail running for about 30-50 email accounts for a few domains on my Rh 7.3 box without any issues. I would like to try web based email.

I have read some articles that qmail is a more efficient and secure then sendmail and I read yahoo even uses qmail. Although I haven't had any security or performance issues w/sendmail would changing over to qmail be a wiser move for web based email or should I just stick with sendmail?

I'm thinking of using squirrelmail or neomail for web interface. Are there any better ones out there?

Thanks

dugg

12-13-2002, 08:22 AM

running sendmail with squirrelmail here with no problems. I am interested in qmail tho too. I think my next box will include it to see what all the talk is about.

qweqwe1

12-15-2002, 08:47 AM

i am running sendmail with neomail w/ any problems for the last 6 months ...it works great ...but i am not sure about the scaleability of neomail because the number of accounts i hv is just 5.

-qweqwe

netx2

12-19-2002, 07:45 PM

For simple security reasons I would seriously consider qmail as the SMTP server.

jolly

12-22-2002, 03:57 PM

Hey we are planning to start email services like myway.com
Could anyone tell me which solution mail program they are using...
I like inter7.com but its not easy to handel.
I like excite email solution as its in php so are they using any mail program cos in php there is option of sendmail and create inbox using imap.

Can anyone suggest solution for inbox more than 25000?

iDxMan

12-25-2002, 11:42 PM

Go qmail - just look at the track records, then never look back.

I've been up on a FreeBSD mail toaster for ~11mo (reading via squirrelmail) and it runs great.

Linux: http://www.shupp.org/toaster/
FreeBSD: http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/

With either of the above setups you can host multiple domains with ease. Although they'll work fine with one.

-r

iDxMan

12-25-2002, 11:46 PM

Can anyone suggest solution for inbox more than 25000?

Not sure if the latest squirrel will work out for that or not. Although I will say that at work (via MS Exchange - I know ugh), previous versions of sq were VERY slow on my inbox (anywhere from 1000-3000), although 1.3.2 was very quick. They must have changed something to only cache the message headers of the current page you are viewing..

I dont' have enough mail on my other servers to give a good sales pitch for courier imap->squirrel..

-r