[ale] New mail server for ~2500 people

[James Taylor]

I would recommend Maia mailguard for a free filtering solution.
Works well, and has an active community.
There are guides for installing on a number of platforms, and I believe
someone was working on a freeBSD appliance.

-jt 
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> "Jeremy T. Bouse" <jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> 6/19/2015 12:24 PM
>>> 
Have you thought about including Amavis and ClamAV? You can even run
the
SpamAssassin checks through Amavis while doing the other content
filtering checks.

On 6/19/2015 10:11 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>
> What would people recommend for this given we’ll be using RHEL7 or
> CentOS7 most likely.
>
>  
>
> I’m thinking
>
> Postfix
>
> Dovecot
>
> Spamassassain
>
>  
>
> 1)       Anything else I should install?   Server will only be used
> for email.
>
> 2)      We’ll probably want to use existing active directory
accounts
> for authentication.   Any insight on how to incorporate that into a
> mail server would be appreciated.
>
> 3)      Any ideas on how much space should be provided for that
number
> of users (general of course – I don’t know specifically what
they’ll
> have)?
>
> 4)      Any ideas on automatic purging of old emails from the
server?
>
> 5)      They want to use a windows based client (likely Outlook and
> not my choice).   Are there any gotchas in using Outlook for a Linux
> email server? Other suggestions for clients on Windows for
> non-technical users?
>
> 6)      Anything else you think I should be considering but didn’t
ask?
>
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