Haim Dimermanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am in the process of setting up an email system that will host > thousands of domains, many aliases per domain as well as forwarding > capabilities on a per-domain basis. > > As far as the MTA is concerned, my choice is postfix. After reading the > postfix-users mailing for a week (~60 msg a day), I think I got a good > feeling about how postfix works. > > I am now confronted with choosing a good Local Delivery Agent. I heard > great things about Cyrus so I gave it a shot. After realizing that the > HOWTO was out-of-date (damn!) and that the Cyrus documentation was > somewhat cryptic, I am now considering Courier. > > What I need is something that is scalable, reliable and working with a > database (MySQL first, maybe Oracle later on). Between Cyrus and > Courier, which one do you recommend? Please note that I am not trying to > start a flame war, I just need to make an important decision.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ apt-cache show scalemail Package: scalemail Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: mail Installed-Size: 176 Maintainer: Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.0.2001.05.18 Depends: postfix (>= 0.0.20010329.SNAPSHOT), maildrop, perl, ldap-utils, debconf (>= 0.9.40) Suggests: courier-imap-ssl | courier-ssl, slapd Conffiles: /etc/scalemail/logrotate-postfix.conf 4191c03373e2a5f6477e6b29c4d451a9 Description: Scalable virtual mail domain system built on Postfix and LDAP A scalable (but not HA, atleast not yet) virtual domain system for handling mail for many users, based on Postfix, LDAP and maildrop (Courier-IMAP will be integrated soon). It's nowhere near finished, but it should be a good direction to go to. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],havoc,gaeshido}.fi,{debian,wanderer}.org,stonesoft.com} unix, linux, debian, networks, security, | First snow, then silence. kernel, TCP/IP, C, perl, free software, | This thousand dollar screen dies mail, www, sw devel, unix admin, hacks. | so beautifully.