Beginning steps...

[tboyer]

I'm about to try Scalix. We've never used Exchange or any other collaboration platform, so this is all uncharted territory for me.

I've got Sendmail sitting on Server A and Server B, getting mail from the outside world and funneling it over to Server C. Server C is where all of my users log in, and I've got Dovecot running there so they can POP3 in and retrieve their email. Server C is also my outbound Sendmail server. Call it excessive paranoia on my part, but this way there's no port open from the outside world directly to Server C.

So where should my Scalix server go? A, B, C, or another server altogether? I can make a case for any of them, I think - but then again, I'm not sure of what I'm doing.

Thanks for any helpful advice...

[PeterR]

So where should my Scalix server go? A, B, C, or another server altogether? I can make a case for any of them, I think - but then again, I'm not sure of what I'm doing.

Hi, that's easy, your Scalix Installation should go to server "D"
Server A and B should forward Emails to Server C and D, so you can easely test scalix without disturbing your normal email prozess.
And you can switch back to your "normal" configuration, without any setup / configuration hassle (oky every email read on scalix (D) will be unread in this case (C) ... ).

From my point of view it does not make sense use scalix only for pop3 and nothing more...
[I admit, one point could be administration of emails, you can delegate Email functions to scalix users for e.g creating new emailaddress or new group-emailaddresses ) without the need to give ssh login to your mailserver. ]

HTH, Peter

[tboyer]

Thanks much, and that makes sense. Yes, just using it for pop3 is silly - we'll be doing shared calenders, etc.

This is the joy of virtual servers - I'll just create another one and toss Scalix on it. Thanks again!