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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 560

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Combine Mail & Web Servers

I was just curious is it common in enterprise environments for Linux administrators to combine their primary email server (Postfix) with their companies web server (Apache)? I'm just more curious than anything and I know this is a relative question with random possible answers but I was just wondering if hardware resources are not an issue, just from a software / configuration stand point, is it likely to just have mail on a separate server and web on another or do must commonly configure and combine those two services to one Linux machine?

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Sin.citadel

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 267

Re: Combine Mail & Web Servers

in enterprises, mail servers themselves take more resources than web servers since almost all clients use pop/imap to get there mails, web server is only commonly used when employees are accessing mail from outside the corporate LAN, personally, i think its much better to keep the mail server separate than web server and use imap libraries to read mail from the server, since the web server can a relatively low powered machine and easier to replace, and the web interface for mail can be swapped independent of the mail server software.