[Fwd: [Techtalk] Complete mail solution]
Dave Petrie
dave at cybearden.net
Thu Oct 4 07:19:28 EST 2001
Kath,
I got your note via a friend. If group scheduling is a requirement (a
feature of both Lotus and Exchange), then the field is pretty limited:
Lotus, Exchange, iPlanet, Novell Groupwise.
If group scheduling is NOT a requirement, I'd suggest looking at an
email appliance from a company called "Mirapoint"
(http://www.mirapoint.com). Their email appliance includes support for
SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, WebMail, WAPMail (i.e.- from cellphones), anti-virus
scanning, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), personal
calendar (no group scheduling). It all comes in a single 'applicance'
like box that can be administered via a command line, a web interface,
or a GUI Java client.
I've been working with them as mail routers (not so much as a mail
server) for a large automotive company, and I'm pretty impressed with them.
Under the hood (which you can't really see from the Admin Interfaces) is
FreeBSD with a modified version of Sendmail, Apache, their own
IMAP/Mailbox service, OpenLDAP, RAID disk, redundant power supplies, and
etc. They're rated @ about 1.2M messages/per day max... (about 5-700K
w/ virus scanning)...
Dave Petrie
Sharon Stock wrote:
> Reply to: techtalk at linuxchix.org and/or kath at kathweb.net 8-)
>
> (It's your chance to save a part of the world, guys ;-)
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> Kath wrote:
>
>> Anyone familiar with a package that will do email (SMTP+POP3) and
>> includes a webmail tool? My real job has decided they want to
>> replace Lotus Notes (the devil itself) with a solution that would be
>> able to do the above. Unfortunately, they are leaning towards a
>> Windows based solution, but are open to other possibilities. Another
>> requirement would be the ability to filter virus laden email, because
>> getting it through to the EU not do things is impossible. Also
>> (probably most important), it must be as idiot proof as possible, as
>> I won't always be around to maintain it. They've asked me to
>> evaluate whats available. Is anyone familiar with Microsoft Exchange
>> or any Linux based solutions packages that could do this? Summarized
>> Requirements:- SMTP and POP3 - Webmail- Virus filtering (Known stupid
>> stuff like iloveyou and SirCam) - Easy to maintain I'm gonna call
>> MS's local sales office now, see what I can gleam from them. - k
>
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