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Email Server Specs -- QMAIL or bust?

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TechBoyJK

Lifer
Hello,

I am going to be setting up a high volume email server.

I plan to use either Linux or FreeBSD, probably FreeBSD. I will not load a gui.

Server Specs::

-Intel SR2300 2U with redundant 500watt power supplies

-Intel Westville SE7500WV2 Dual Xeon Motherboard

-One (1) Intel 1.8GHz Xeon processor

-1gb Total (2x 512mb) PC2100 ECC Registered DDR Memory.

-Dual Intel 10/100/1000 Server Adapters

-Onboard Video Controller

-Dual Channel Ultra 160 integrated

-Intel SRCMRU Raid Controller

-Two (2) 36gb Ultra 160 SCSI Hot Swap Hard Drives

-CD-ROM/Floppy Combo


The server will need the ability to do dynamic alias's. We will be giving our members an email redirect/alias, and it needs to be able to be created dynamically via a form process.

My research has lead me to QMAIL/qmail. Is there any reason I should not move forward with this???

Thanks for the input!
 
Looks good. I would recommend FreeBSD for sure.

QMail and Exim are excellent MTA's. Both, of course, work on FreeBSD. QMail probably has more form processing templates out on the 'Net.

Confirm that your NIC (Intel should NOT be a problem at all), RAID controller, video (should not be much of an issue with a server board), etc. is compatible with the OS HCL.

Shut down un-used & unecessary services (/etc/inetd.conf & so forth) and keep an eye open for SPAM fighting solutions before it becomes a major problem.

Good luck!
 
Is there any kind of spam fighting solutions that may be within the OS that I can look for? Or anything on the web I can grab?

Does anybody have any special techniques for fighting spam that they would like to share?

Thank you very, very much!
 
You could look at SpamAssassin, I havn't gotten around to implementing it myself so I can't comment though.
 
http://imgate.meiway.com/ -- Heard very good things about this solution. The author is a great chap. Uses Postfix I think.

Alternatively, Exim has lots of built-in UCE fighting features, as well as qmail.

Let me know if you setup Imgate.

GLWIA! 🙂
 
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