[Dovecot] Creating an IMAP repo for ~100 users need some advice

[Spyros Tsiolis]

>Hi,
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>I am currently in the process of setting up an IMAP repository for round 100 users....
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>Currently the user authentication method is being handled via a Windows Domain Controller.
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>The host OS for Dovecot will either be FreeBSD or CentOS.
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>Would Dovecot be able to authenticate to either the DC directly or would we need to go through LDAP??
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>Additionally
 what would be the best method to store the **mail** information? - as 
in MySQL database or Maildir format; coinciding with this what is the 
best backup method in order to be able to do 'dump' backups or restore 
single emails??
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>Can anyone give me a hand with this?
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>Regards,
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>
>Kaya




Hi Kaya,

I can't force you to follow a specific path.
All I can do, is tell you my experience on this.

Using Dovecot for IMAP, XMail for POP3/SMTP, Horde for
Webmail, OpenLDAP for LDAP (no windows software
there) and CentOS v5.5 32-bit onwards.
User base is about 30 users.
System uptime without a glitch reached at some point
(had to reboot the server for maintenance reasons) about
200 days. I am sure it would go beyond 365 days.

Hope this helps,

spyros



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