Ultimate Email solution for os x

[Andy Gurney]

Hi,

We're using an SBS 2003 server and Enoturage 2004 on 10.3.9 for email. The mailboxes for the users are huge (they work in the film industry and receive above 100 emails a day) and quite often they had spinning beachballs. I have run the Entourage database tool many times. Even created a 2nd IMAP email account for each user in order to store emails so that the user's exchange accounts do not have so many objects to synchronise. This works, no spinning beach ball etc, but the users find it far too complicated to have 2 mailboxes. The users themselves started to use the local mail folders as a store, that's not really a solution as we have no way of backing them up.

What the customer wants is one mailbox per user, no delays when sync'ing, everything backed up. They are prepared to spend money on a solution even a new email server and mail clients.

So here's the $64 question. What hardware/software solution provides the best/reliable email delivery and storage for users. I must admit to being a windows server man but am more than willing get stuck into OS X servers.

Sorry for the long 1st ever post, any thoughts are most gratefully received

 

[supanatral]

The company I work for puts graphics on vehicles and they have the possibility to recieve huge emails as well however, I'm sure that it's still not as big. I have two possibilities for you.

First: Instead of leaving movies in your inbox, why not make a network storage drive for everyone and get them to save there and delete it from their mailbox.

Or Second: Setup a FTP server so that customers can directly upload files to your server and employee's can grab it directly off of there. Note: Don't use SBS 2003 to do this, the last time I did that, we were hacked and became a porn server.