A trick I heard was to send a unique message through the entire mail flow and then check it showed up within 15 minutes. It was monitored via Xymon.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 7:13 AM Nate Burke <n...@blastcomm.com> wrote: > Thanks, I'll have to checkout Smartermail. I would love to get rid of > running email, but I don't think management would let me. And I'm having a > love/hate relationship with my mail server right now. When it runs, it > just sits there and runs, when it's not, then I have some sleepless > nights. > > > How can you tell if a mail server isn't working? I haven't gotten any > email for 15 minutes, maybe the Spam filter is doing a good job, maybe the > server is broken, maybe I just didn't get any mail. <Yes, there are > monitoring programs in place> > > > On 9/12/2024 7:14 PM, Josh Baird wrote: > > SmarterMail is fine -- used to be only Windows (we run it on Windows), but > now looks like they have a Linux distribution. > > But, if you ask me, y'all are crazy for running your own email > server(s) anyways. Host your corporate email at Google/O365/whatever > floats your boat, and politely tell your customers to get their email > elsewhere. > > Cheers, > > Josh > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote: > >> When I was looking, some people suggested SmarterMail, but I didn't do a >> trial. Maybe someone here is familiar with it. >> >> If you want just a barebones SMTP/IMAP/POP3/webmail server you may want >> to roll your own like the old days. Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube, >> SpamAssassin, ClamAV, MariaDB. >> >> Or believe it or not, there is a fork of the old Sun Cobalt software (now >> open source) still around and actively supported. Although it doesn't >> sound like you want to do web hosting, DNS, FTP, etc. on the same box. >> https://www.blueonyx.it/ >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke >> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2024 4:24 PM >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> >> Subject: [AFMUG] Email Servers >> >> I've been using Merak/Icewarp email server for a long long time. Like >> 20+ years, it's just worked, and worked, and worked. The software has >> been slowly migrating into becoming an MS exchange replacement with >> Groupware/files/cloud, and has made just a simple SMTP/IMAP/POP3/webmail >> server very difficult and expensive. >> >> I know that moving systems is bothersome, especially with users who might >> need to be 'touched' to update settings. But I think it's time to start >> looking at other options. >> >> Has anyone had to do this recently. What system did you migrate >> to/from? I have a couple hundred users spread across about 50 domains. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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