On 2017-04-16 12:52:51 (+0530), Rajesh M <24x7ser...@24x7server.net> wrote:
i have been using qmail (qmailtoaster) for the past several years and
would like to use postfix for my new server
my os is centos6 -- 64 bit
my servers are hexcore processors, 16 gb ram
os - raid1 -- 600 gb 15k rpm
data - raid1 -- 2000 gb 7.2k rpm
i have a traffic of around 60k delivered emails per day per server
my current qmail install includes qmail (Maildir format), maildrop,
vopmail (for managing users), qmailadmin (web interface for creation /
modification /deletion of users, forwarding, auto-response and mailing
list management) , spamassassin, mysql, dovecot pop3 and imap, SSL/TLS
and STARTTLS for smtp/pop3/imap and squirrelmail for webmail. I also
use email sending / receiving policy and email archival of every email
sent and recd per user.
on postfix i would like to have a similar setup as above with a fairy
simple way to migrate user mailbox data, which OS is preferred (though
i am using centos6 i dont mind changing) and also what partition format
would be stable and faster than ext4.
could you please let me know where to start please, links to url which
apply to current postfix packages and also add-on software, with some
information on specific steps where i need to take care.
I would definitely recommend FreeBSD if you're not married to Linux.
It's a lot more predictable (no systemd farce). Progress is made at a
steady pace, without surprises. Just like Postfix. The FreeBSD port of
Postfix follows Wietse's releases quite closely and ships without
gratuitous changes to the default settings.
If you ``pkg install postfix`` on FreeBSD you'll get a pristine Postfix
installation with defaults as documented by Postfix.
For filesystems: I cannot recommend ZFS strongly enough. For a busy
mailspool, you really want to add SSD log devices to your pool though.
If you can't use ZFS for whatever reason, UFS works well for Postfix
too. For mail storage, the builtin lz4 compression of ZFS performs
incredibly well.
Postfix supports Maildir so you probabably will not need to migrate your
user mailboxes. If you add a '/' at the end of ``mail_spool_directory``
or ``home_mailbox``, Postfix local(8) will deliver Maildir-style.
You can probably keep using your MySQL database from qmail largely
unchanged. The [MYSQL_README](http://www.postfix.org/MYSQL_README.html)
documents the configuration very well. Dovecot works well with Postfix
too, so do SpamAssassin and maildrop and everything else you're likely
to need.
Postfix comes with incredibly thorough documentation. You'll have to
ask more specific questions on this list if you run into difficulties.
Philip
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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information
