Standalone Mail Server or Combined Services - Which is better?

Looking to solve some disagreement regarding email services. Any advice would be appreciated.
Some time ago, our consultants recommended setting up a separate email server to handle incoming/outgoing mail for our hosting services. We host over 200 domains and have a lot of email. Current system is running 10.9 on a G4.
New advice is wanting us to move all accounts to our primary applications server which hosts software, e-commerce and all data files for running the websites. We have redundancy on this machine and not the stand-alone.
Are there advantages or disadvantages of running mail services on the application servers or is a stand-alone scenario best? Anyone have any compelling advice to settle this disagreement?
Thanks.
David

I have a OSX Lion Server running as a file server in our network. But I have no clue if there's a way to use it's mailserver without smtp auth.
Sure. Turn it on.
The default mode is to not require authentication. You have to turn on authentication if you want it.
Changing authentication on/off is a matter of clicking a radio button.

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I have Xserve running Mail Server, OD and Web which includes Mailman and webmail.
I have the boot drive and another partition which has the Mail Data on it..
what is the best way to transfer the files from this machine to another Xserve running 10.6.. i mean i know how to export mail settings under Server Admin, but how can i get the database and all that transfered.. i'm afraid i will lose something .. and never done this before!

I do my Cyrus backups to one of the internal drives on my Xserve via mailbfr (1 for backup 2 drives for mirrored OS, and an external array for mail data). When I want to migrate a user to my new Xserve running 10.6, I eject the backup disk and put it in one of the drive bays on the new Xserve. On the new Xserve, I have two 2TB drives mirrored for the mail, an internal SSD drive for the OS and a cheapo third drive I backup the OS to via Carbon Copy Cloner. I can just pop the third drive out and put in the backup disk from the other Xserve.
Note: I assume you are running Leopard Server on the old Xserve. Before you move any mail data over, you must stop the mail service. Cyrus is prone to corruption of the mail database unless you stop the mail service. Not so much with Dovecot, which is a big reason I am migrating...
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Message was edited by: flatrack

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hello,
iam developing a java code , which is used to send mail using Extensible Mail server(XMS) in smtp, which is capable of sending 10,000 at once,
i need some coding or details about Extensible mail server or releated links and java coding ,
iam looking forward for ur replys
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Is there a way to convert Crystal Reports to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 reporting services?

Post Author: Lourdes Hernandez
CA Forum: General
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Hi All!
Can we find the IP address of the SMTP mail server and its outgoing mail port number through java? If Yes, how?
regards,
Rajat Aggarwal

Hi!
Actually, I am using Java Mail API to send a mail.
However, i do not know the SMTP mail server's address
through which i should be routing my mail. I need
some way to find the IP Address and the port number
for this.In other words you're looking for random open relays to use to send spam through.
Why should we help you do something that's illegal almost everywhere and very poor ethics even where not?
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TS4002 I cannot edit my incoming mail server name under iCloud

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Should I just start using OS X server to run mail services
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Ensure users have mail enabled in Workgroup Manager.
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If needed
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-- Jon
Message was edited by: Jon Koerber

Thanks Alex for the feedback. You are helpful as always!
It's good to know that the message I am getting from the mail server about the configuration files is only a temporary thing. Although I find it strange that the mail service doesn't know where its config files are since it is specified in the mail server setup.
I looked at the log files you mentioned and do not see anything that looks like a specific problem with the mail services themselves.
Recently, however, I have been having recurring problems where my mail server and my Web/Database server have both become unresponsive at nearly the same time even though they are on different class A networks to where I cannot access them via ARD, Server Admin and even SSH. That is usually when my mail server goes offline. I was afraid it was because of that configuration error I was seeing, but think now that the problem could be something else entirely (maybe some kind of network problem or denial of service hacking attack, no idea).
Thanks again.
-- Jon

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Dear Sir/ Madam,
My Mail Server Hosted on outlook freely but services for same getting shutting from 31
july 2014,
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Hello fellow Lion Server users,
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in documents we read when we install WDS on the server which is also DHCP server, we must select this check mark :
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If Windows Deployment Services and DHCP are running on the same physical computer, this means that the DHCP server is listening on port 67 and is responsible ensuring authorization.
The related KB:
How the PXE Server Works
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732649(v=ws.10).aspx
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Hi All,
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yourmailserver.com FrontendTransport Active
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yourmailserver.com EwsProxy Active
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yourmailserver.com PushNotificationsProxy Active
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yourmailserver.com RwsProxy Active
yourmailserver.com RpcProxy Active
yourmailserver.com UMCallRouter Active
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yourmailserver.com ForwardSyncDaemon Active
yourmailserver.com ProvisioningRps Active
yourmailserver.com MapiProxy Active
yourmailserver.com EdgeTransport Active
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