[horde] Three questions for the gurus out there. . .

[Rob MacGregor]

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 20:00, Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Rob !
>
> Right, so on to apache and https and once that works, tweak horde
> with https. Right ?

No - "tweak" *Apache* with HTTPS.
>
> Right. Ok, let me see.
> There are a couple of accounts in each domain that have Gb of data.
> that's about 4 to 8 Gb each.
> Also, I would like them, not to use MTAs(outlook/thunderbird), but
> directly from the web-browser.

Yes, but:

>> How often are they accessing it?  How much email do
>> they get?  How big are those emails?  How are they accessing it?

Knowing that they've got 8 GB (I assume you meant GigaBytes, not
Gigabits) isn't half as relevant as knowing that it took 2 years, or 2
days, to build up to that 8 GB ;)

>From what you've said so far I doubt it'll matter what you use for
your mail server.  It doesn't sound like you're running a high volume
site (I'd expect you'd know by now) so the overhead of Apache and
Horde should be irrelevant.

> That's pretty much it really.
> Should I go ahead and try heavy metal servers, or should I
> compromise with a desktop pc acting as a server ?

If you can afford it you should only ever use a server as a server,
particularly if people rely on it.  You should be looking at something
with redundant power supplies and (ideally hardware) RAID protection
for disks - on top of the tested backup and recovery ;)

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