We are a medium size company and our aging POP3 solution is becoming difficult to manage. It's a shared hosting setup that has to be administered via CPanel, what are our options? Any recommendations on how to tackle the monster that is mail?
Ars Technica had an article about running your own mailserver, to include IMAP, awhile back (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to... while it's targeted at the individual user, a lot of the steps would apply to a larger, multi-server organisation. You could extend postfix with a PostgreSQL database, split the different servers onto different hosts &c.
Honestly, these days it's probably easier and cheaper to just buy Google Apps or Office365, but if you want to control your own destiny it's really not difficult.
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Rackspace Mail handles this for over 3 million business users. Their hosted e-mail is fully managed with a 100% uptime SLA and 24/7/365 live support. It's only $2 per mailbox per month.
- Migrate mails over to SaaS (Gmail, Amazon mail, or Exchange online) .. Probably the best option, unless you want to run your own
- Run a "full featured" open-source mail service like Zimbra on servers on any cloud of your choosing!
- Run a simpler old-school mail solution, like postfix + https://roundcube.net/ for better access
Actually if you need help doing this migration, I'd be happy to help (I'm mostly an Ops person)
• Cyrus – it's used by Fastmail and others, and with its perl API somewhat manageable. We e.g. put all configuration in Active Directory and sync it over with said API. It also has reasonable clustering and replication support.
Honestly, these days it's probably easier and cheaper to just buy Google Apps or Office365, but if you want to control your own destiny it's really not difficult.