Hi,
I will probably have to design an e-mail (and other components)
infrastructure for a small ISP soon (WISP).
I'm doing some research to determine which components would be best to
offer e-mail services to their client and allow the staff to manage
accounts easily.
I usually use virtual machines a lot for isolation and easy backups and
migration (when a hardware node is underpowered, it is easy to migrate
one or more virtual machines to another hardware node easily).
I have looked at iSCSI and drbd for high-availability of the storage:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/82284/san-on-the-cheap/page1.html.
This looks like it should be doing a great job of high availability storage.
For mail server, I guess I should look at an MTA and IMAP/POP server
that supports LDAP and/or MySQL for users. Postfix should be a good
choice for MTA, as I know it (at least a little, but I know sendmail
better). For IMAP/POP, I'm not sure... Would dovecot be sufficient, or
should I try cyrus. I'd rather use components that are available for
base or extras repository (or rpmforge). I think that squirrelmail and
horde would do a good job for webmail.
There shoudn't be any troubles having some redundancy for DNS, web
servers, mtas, but what about IMAP/POP? linux-HA? MySQL replication
should be enough, I guess. Or maybe linux-HA as well. I wonder if I
should add GFS to the mix to have multiple IMAP/POP servers use the same
storage. Or maybe IMAP proxies?
Any insights welcome :).
Ugo
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