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Re: Ask HN: How do we replace our POP3 email solution?

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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…

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Re: Ask HN: How do we replace our POP3 email solution?

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• 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. • Google Apps.

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Re: Ask HN: How do we replace our POP3 email solution?

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With email, you want simple, turnkey, and ideally self service.

Free::

http://modoboa.org/en/

http://www.iredmail.org/ ... also has paid version

Paid::

http://www.afterlogic.com/mailsuite/linux-email-server

https://www.atmail.com/

With each of the options above, you get the complete stack.

::Email server (IMAP + SMTP + POP3)

::Spam protection etc

::Web Client.

And for each of them, you also get a decent web admin panel out of the box.

Trust me, you really don't want to be spending the next week putting the individual components together and getting them to play nice yourself.

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