Philusa Corporation switched out their qmail-based system with AXIGEN Mail Server to meet the need for greater reliability, scalability and cost-efficiency. Using the AXIGEN Business Edition on Linux offers the company a good foundation for improving employees' productivity, reducing operating costs and staying ahead of competition.

As Mr. Arlan Dimalanta, IT Manager at Philusa Corporation, further explains, the decision to choose AXIGEN over other messaging and collaboration solutions in the market: “was mainly based on three things: the right fit of the product, the right compatibility with Linux and the right cost.”

The AXIGEN Service Provider solution was deployed in a full clustering and horizontal scalability architecture built on existing elements in SchoolCenter's network such as load balancers, redundant network infrastructure, firewalls etc. The math was simple:

• Previous Vpopmail/qmail + MySQL setup: 10 servers (4 front-end server, 6 back-ends and 1 fileserver) supported 60,000 users
• Clustered AXIGEN Service Provider: SAN storage and 6 servers (2 Front-ends, 2 Back-ends, 1 LDAP and 1 Hot Stand-by) able to support more than 200,000 mailboxes

McCormick Philippines, Inc initially used the Postfix email server for their electronic mail. The decision to look for a new messaging solution mainly came as a result of the company’s pressing needs to solve and further prevent security issues such as the growing number of virus threats and spam messages.

"With our previous system, we kept on receiving a bulk of spam mails every day. Also, maintenance was difficult for our IT personnel with no background in Linux", says Christopher Eslava, IT Manager, McCormick Philippines, Inc.

The Department of Labor Inspection initially managed its email services using an Open Source mail server, Postfix, while storing messages on a dedicated server and organizing account information in an OpenLDAP database.

The high email traffic, the necessity to lower the email processing queue, to optimize WebMail services and benefit from specialized technical support and maintenance led to the implementation of a new messaging solution: AXIGEN Mail Server.

I have worked in computing for a little under twenty years and have used a variety of mail systems from rock solid UNIX mail to the not so rock solid Microsoft Exchange.

AXIGEN makes the rock solid UNIX mail an easily deployable solution for whatever size your company is and I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone looking to host their own mailing system.

Supporting over 4,000,000 Maktoob registered users

Maktoob.com, the largest online portal in the Middle East has successfully implemented the AXIGEN Mail Server, to ensure a stronger IT infrastructure and manageability of the email traffic.

AXIGEN’s implementation represents yet another step of Maktoob’s commitment for fast, innovative and comprehensive services for its email users, in its position as the No 1 online portal in Arabic.

SILVAROM is a privately owned joint-stock company with extensive experience in the furniture industry. It is one of Romania’s top furniture producers and exporters, with over 20 distributors country-wide and exports to several European and Asian markets.

I am an IT professional working for a large international IT integrator in Switzerland. As lots of other IT pros, I have quite an impressive home environment, including a full Active Directory, and I am hosting my own email domain and web site on a Linux box. I don’t like having my emails stored at an ISP’s datacenter. Not that I would have to hide something but you know, we ITs suffer from some kind of security paranoia :-)

For years, I have used a combination of Sendmail and Open WebMail to manage my email communication. Why did you change, you may wonder? There were two main reasons:

•  As an IT pro, I have the tendency to always use leading edge technology which means that I very often reinstall my Linux system when a new version hits the road...