Has anyone worked with building their own smarthost? We are looking to build one using Postfix on Linux to handle many servers that need a smarthost to relay on their behalf. I've built many Postfix email systems before but not a dedicated smarthost. Anyone have any guidance? This is all for internal use, not for reselling or anything and it doesn't need to be doing spam filtering or anything like that as it is pure text emails being sent for alerts and such. Very basic. We could use Zimbra but seems way to heavy when we could have a tiny, tiny system just doing Postfix alone.

I would be loathe to deploy on site Exchange today, especially for someone new, though. Why not put him on Office 365?

The cost of the license might be high enough to make a new server and consolidation make sense. There is SO little memory in those that they are kind of silly as they are. Needing an OS license isn't the end of the world, servers are normally sold without them. So in their current state they are just servers without Windows. No reason not to use them for Linux, FreeBSD, etc.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller Ya think?! That's not very nice showing the world your daughter playing in the toilet!

No, it's a bidet as the thread said.

@joyfano the image that Katie posted is a famous meme from a US television network in the 1980s.

@katie was all over that one!

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller Yeah.. I'm doing my best to invite other people ..

Whoo hoo!

Someday she is going to be SO embarrassed by that picture.

http://www.eliomotors.com/

This looks really interesting for those of us with big commutes!

@Dashrender said:

OneNote? I think they can be shared, but I do want a website.

With certain Sharepoint licenses, OneNote will turn into a website too. That is how we use OneNote with our SharePoint Enterprise via Office 365. We can use the OneNote app, the OneNote web app or the wiki in Sharepoint all for different effects.

@Dashrender said:

OneNote? I think they can be shared, but I do want a website.

I think getting used to how to use a wiki is the easiest answer. That's what pretty much the entire industry does today. Sharepoint, to the best of my knowledge, has the most robust editing facilities but also the most problematic for posting code. MediaWiki is better but with a little more effort.

Here is my eldest daughter playing with bath toys in a bidet in Piemonte, Italy. Some Norwegian friends of ours set this up for her so that she could play

Yes, the US is archaic in its comfort room facilities

Yeah, at this point you are the community's first person outside of the US, Canada and UK! Hopefully we will have a more and more international membership soon.

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller I see. . now I know.

And knowing is half the battle.

IOPS are the biggest concern really. But without anything like a database which really needs them, RAID 6 might be more than enough. Exchange wouldn't be a big concern as it is not IOPS heavy. RAID 10 is far better tuned for heavy writes, but if reads are the vast majority, RAID 6 will keep right up.

RAID 6 will deliver a lot more capacity, RAID 10 a lot more performance and some additional reliability. With those expensive 10K SAS drives, I'd guess that you'd not want to give up too much performance to parity overhead, especially if 15K drives were being kicked around as an idea. But, as a general sense, RAID 6 will work fine but typically (but not always) if going for RAID 6 it would also make sense to use NL-SAS drives which cost less. RAID 6 would never be used with 15K drives for practical reasons. It can make monetary sense with 10K but is not the most obvious choice. With NL-SAS, RAID 6 can really hit its stride for reliable large capacity, affordable systems.

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller yes it is. I don't know where we got that word

It's English, actually. Just really rare. It is late-middle English and a word not used here but must have been retained there: late Middle English: from Old French viande ‘food,’ from an alteration of Latin vivenda, neuter plural gerundive of vivere ‘to live.’

@Paul-Luciano said:

@ajstringham I can see that working. I like that angle. I look forward to seeing how we can do searches so I don't have to post and miss the answer.

Regards,

Paul Luciano, MCSE

Yeah, that's the biggest challenge right now.

@ajstringham said:

@Joyfano Do you have air conditioning? I'm guessing no...if you have a server room with AC, move your desk in there!

They'd never keep the servers running! She is nearly on the equator!