Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh)]

Feizhou wrote:
> For 2000 students and faculty (well, I guess faculty may or may not be 
> hosted on the same box but even if it is a different domain, it is not 
> hard) and the constant yearly addition and possibly removal of accounts, 
> I would suggest a system where the user information are stored in a 
> database (mysql) and virtual mail storage (only one system account is 
> used for all email account mailboxes).
> 
> This is possible with postfix alone, you just have to work out the 
> database schema yourself and build the interfaces needed for 
> addition/removal of email accounts otherwise you will or whoever will 
> have to do all that manual by running sql statements.

Sounds like a classic case where postfix and CyrusIMAPD are going to be 
the best solution for this person - postfix with mysql is hosted in 
CentOSPlus, so you dont need to go "work out the schema" yourself, use 
Cyrus + Web-cyradmin + pam_mysql, and you are done.

Btw, we've spoken about the merits and demerits of various mail app's 
many times on this mailing list - lets not go there again.

- K