Big boss wants to move our POP3 in house. I have 60-80 employees who like to send crazy huge files all the time and we use standard POP3 hosted by a 3rd party. We want more control and faster response time, so in house hosting seems like a good idea. What would you suggest? I don’t care about SMTP – we use IIS to forward all our shit to a smarthost. I don’t care about IMAP. What I do care is working POP and some sort of webmail solution.
What do you use for email at your work? What would you pitch to your boss?
I could implement something real quick with Win2k3 and the windows POP3 service. Or I could bring in a Linux box running postfix, sendmail or whatnot.
The catch is that I will have to install, configure and maintain it. So I want a robust solution, but one that that won’t drive me completely insane during config and maintenance tasks.
Suggestions go!
[tags]email, pop3, email solutions, pop3 server, email server, suggestions[/tags]
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You were a grad assistant at MSU, right? Tell me what it entails PLEEZ.
By the way…I finally got the PHP/MySQL to work. It turns out that I put the PHP extensions (one of which includes the one that makes it work with MySQL) in the wrong directory.
It depends on the department really.
If you work in CS, you will probably end up assisting a professor in teaching 109 first semester, and then teach your own class after that. You will also probably have to work as a TA with one of the professors teaching 183 or 184. This usually means grading homework projects, and being assisting students in the lab.
If you work in Math you will probably doing shifts in the Math Lab.
Some departments do not require you to teach, and just give you clerical work.
I managed to reconcile the GA work, full time class schedule and a part time job with an almost full time hours – but then again I’m borderline insane. :mergeen: I’m just saying it’s doable, if you don’t obsess to much about it.
I know it will cover my tuition for the two years…is there a stipend?
I used to use Postfix when I ran my mail locally – worked fine, and was very easy to setup and configure (although I did use Webmin).
[quote comment=”4367″]I know it will cover my tuition for the two years…is there a stipend?[/quote]
Yes, there is a stipend. I don’t remember how much was – it was not some very big sum. But they definitely pay you.
[quote comment=”4368″]I used to use Postfix when I ran my mail locally – worked fine, and was very easy to setup and configure (although I did use Webmin).[/quote]
Postfix + webmin. I will try this out and see how it work. Thanks.
I use Red Cube, or Round Cube something like that
Roundcube
http://roundcube.net/
I’ve been hoping I’d run into that webmail client again; I’d seen it before, but forgot to bookmark it! Thanks for posting the link :)
Oh, and I upgraded my co-located box, and now I’m running Postfix + Webmin on it (Postfix add-ons: SPF checks, DNSBL checks, SASL authentication with Dovecot POP3/IMAP server, etc), and it’s working fine so far :)
gnu mailutils and squirrel mail are nice on linux, and the support for gnu mailutils is outstanding.
@ths – I’m a bit sick of Squirellmail. I’ve been spoiled by using the Gmail UI as my primary email interface for the last few years. Jumping back to Squiremail after Gmail is not pleasant. :P
Zimbra! Build a netinstall debian box and install Zimbra! Easy!