Re: Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[alex at milivojevic.org (Aleksandar Milivojevic)]

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:

> Pendrives ? Smartcards ?
> 
> Trust me, you don't want to keep those students inboxes on the server.
> Without quota, you will never have enough disk.
> With quota, you will never have a second of peace.

Pendrives?  As in USB memory sticks?  You must be joking here, right? 
At $50 per stick and 2,000 students, that's investment of $100,000. 
Local retailers would sure love him (and you for suggesting something 
like that).  I don't think his budget is anywhere near that amount. 
Even if it was, for the price of a single stick, he could buy tens of 
gigabytes of disk space.  For a price of 2000 sticks, he could buy so 
much storage that he could support tens (hundreds?) thousands of user 
without quotas.  Memory sticks are probably the single most expensive 
storage device.  Not to mention that configuring email clients to use 
sticks would be real support nightmare.

IMAP and centralized mail storage is solution for his problem.  And the 
most inexpensive too.  Period.