Which solution to choose for organizing internal mail in a small office?

ndsdmfwg2014-01-23 09:35:38

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ndsdmfwg, 2014-01-23 09:35:38

I came to a small company (5 people). There is a Director, an Accountant, a System Administrator (the director's brother), a Production Manager and I (SEO and marketing). Inside the office, everyone has an office, inside there is no limit: there is no internal mail, although I would say that it is needed. Now external mailers are used, but I took up this issue (I buy domains with a list), and I want to make sure that the mail server is both inside and outside. It happens that the Internet is sometimes unavailable (for a short time), because. radio internet (winter).
Please tell me the solution that suits me. The question, I would say, is not acute, but it will be necessary for the future. Yes, and I can do it myself, I’ll put a mail server right on the Rasberry Pi, and the fact that it will pull more.
The main question will be what to use as a solution for internal mail, which can be external (semi-autonomous). I will be glad to any suggestions.

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12 answer(s)

Nikita Bykov, 2014-01-23
@smarteq

And if it is possible to take a more or less decent wheelbarrow for a mail server - www.zimbra.com a ready-made solution (albeit for postfix, it works out of the box) were satisfied overall. But she's gorging on resources.

VBKesha, 2014-01-23
@VBKesha

It may be easier to use Yandex mail for a domain or the same from Google, and do not suffer from spam, fastening the web interface and others.

bankapi, 2014-01-23
@bankapi

In terms of ROI - use Google Apps, or a local solution (Mail.Ru for business?) - I really didn’t deal with the latter.

Alexander Sklyarov, 2014-01-23
@Voron095

The quick setup low cost option I'm currently using:
VPS for $5/mo with postfix in relay mode
Zimbra office with external MTA forwarding configured
All together up and running within an hour without much effort.
The most important plus, in the event of a connection failure, postfix accumulates mail on itself in the event of a connection break.

Ars1s, 2014-01-23
@Ars1s

Postfix + Dovecot, I think it will work for you. habrahabr.ru/post/193220 you can read here.

Nikita Bykov, 2014-01-23
@smarteq

I wouldn't advise messing with Postfix. exim is better. If you take debian, then it will not be difficult to install Exim on hautuks. But configuring it is just fabulous. In our exim, for example, distribution is generally done, i.e. hosted xm server (VDS) and a local server so that mail does not go outside if between employees. On exim, it took off with a bang and has been working great for almost 2 years.

Sergei Borisov, 2014-01-23
@risik

Raspberry Pi ? Monsieur understands!

Kerman, 2014-01-23
@Kerman

If there are interruptions with the Internet - it is better not to install a mail server. But if you really want to:
1. We pay for a corporate summary box from Google. Bind to your domain.
2. Install exim, dovecot, fetchmail, configure.
3. We drag mail with a fetchmail from Google via POP3.
4. We scatter the received mail in boxes with exim.
5. For the rest of the year, we distribute to clients via POP3 or IMAP.
6. Turn off the kasperych plugin so that Outlook does not hang when working with IMAP =)

Alexey Kolosov, 2014-01-23
@satisFUCKtor

https://pdd.yandex.ru/ not?

Maxim Tikhonenkov, 2014-01-24
@mtikhon

yes full of servers.
MDaemon Mail Server is generally free for 5 people.
We used it for testing.

s0m, 2014-01-26
@s0m

xmail is
free, cross-platform, harvester ready - install and forget

kenny_opennix, 2014-01-26
@kenny_opennix

check out Zarafa or Open-Xchange