I am currently proving a Cyrus Imap / E-Groupware server will work at my company. (replacing FT gate, Competing against Exchange). We are almost at the stage where we will be getting hardware. I need advice on some points. Hardware. archival. ms outlook IMAP support Issues. The Site: ~50 Users , all accessing email all day (heavy usage can be assumed). IT Company/ Call center. Hardware: Single server Dual Xeon 2 core , 8 GB ram looking at a Intel SAS 256 MB RAID card with 2 Arrays 300 GB SAS - OS / and email and 1 TB SATA - Archival would using SATA for the /var/spool/imap folder limit performance much vs using SAS drives ? would raid5 using 3 or 4 1 TB drives be better than the sas raid 1 ? My test server. is a Dualcore E5200 @ 2.50GHz wwith 2GB ram and a 160 SATA drive. I get delays accessing my email in Outlook (1.5 Gb of email) , I suspect this delay is Outlook Outlook is unresponsive for 2-3 minutes at startup (when syncing) I also get a Message now and then about my connection being closed All of the users currently use Outlook. Outlook Auto Archive does not seem to work with IMAP I am 99% sure this is outlook is the problem, are there workarounds available ? (fairly sure I can convert a lot of people to Thunderbird etc , But the Managers like their Outlook!) Is there a way to Archive Older Messages on the server ? maybe ipurge not purging but moving emails ? ( we need to keep every email Archived for Legal reasons etc. ) (still don't know how to get Sendmail to archive all outgoing messages yet either) also: The RHEL5.3 cyrus rc script runs a database backup on shutdown and a restore on bootup - This is a bit dumb, when the backup progess crashed due to a misconfigeration (test server) and the server was Power reset. it the restored a broken backup and I lost the mailbox database .. - Not your fault but something to watch out for. If anyone out there has set-up a similar system and hit a Stumbling block Please let me know !! also if anyone needs a pam config for imap to authenticate against a egroupware mysql database I have it working. TIA John. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
