[CentOS] [Semi-OT] Advice on large webmail setup

Wed Feb 14 14:45:11 UTC 2007
Jeremy Rosengren <jeremy at rosengren.org>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 07:22 +0200, Neil Thompson wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As the resident Linux guru, I've just been tasked with costing a webmail setup
>> for about 600 000 users.  They each have 10MiB (small, I know) mailboxes.  The
>> current setup has about 40 million web page accesses per month.
>>
>> Has anyone here any experience with this kind of thing?  If so, any pointers as
>> to software and hardware used, and any other advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> TIA
>>     
>
> Personally ... I think horde is good if you are looking to do webmail on
> an existing mail system.  You should be able to tie this to just about
> any existing IMAP mail server.
>
> If you are looking to install a mailserver and webmail at the same time,
> I think Scalix is a good bet.  It includes the ability to have 25
> premium users (ie, 25 people can use the outlook premium mail connector)
> and everyone else can use IMAP / POP, etc.
>
> I think that the Scalix webmail interface (ajax based) is the best I
> have ever used.
>   
I've been using Zimbra (www.zimbra.com).  It has some
heftier-than-most-solutions server requirements, but the web interface
is very nice.

-- jeremy