For those of you who build on Linux, which mail server do you use?

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ElementX's picture

Debian defaults to Exim for its mail server. Can it handle a robust e-commerce site with some Customer Relationship Management behind the scenes? In other words does Exim scale or should I use another mail server?

Also has anyone used the Boron theme or the Mobile JQuery Theme?
https://drupal.org/project/mobile_jquery

https://drupal.org/project/boron

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lhridley's picture

We don't use a linux mail server -- we prefer to develop based on specific client requirements, and our experience is that every client uses a different solution for handling email for their domain name. If a client is not knowledgeable enough to know, or sophisticated enough to manage a mail server, we usually recommend using SendGrid, which is easily configurable with the SMTP module. Their service is free up to a certain volume (200 emails per day), and the incremental costs once that volume is reached is minimal. They're reputable, and it removes the headache of having to manage and protect a mail server against hijacking for nefarious purposes, plus it reduces the load on the web server. We have a generic account set up with SendGrid for development purposes that we use while a client figures out what they want to do.

SendGrid even has instructions on integrating their service with your Drupal project using the SMTP module:

https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Open_Source_Apps/drupal.html

Many of our larger clients who expect a decent volume of traffic ultimately utilize multiple web servers with a front-end load balancer, and have dedicated mail servers in place for corporate email. We typically just get an account established on that server for outgoing webmail, and integrate with their SMTP server, usually using the SMTP module.

On the themes: Never used Boron, played with Mobile jQuery. Mobile jQuery doesn't have good support (the last commit was 8 months ago) and we've found that a good responsive base theme is usually more than adequate to support mobile devices -- most of them incorporate all or a part of the jQuery Mobile library to support touch and swipe events for touch screens, and adding support for touch events not covered is pretty simple. We are fast becoming fans of Bootstrap 3.0 as a base theme for client projects. Good support for responsive themes is built-in.

Word to the wise -- steer clear of Omega3 for anything beyond a simple layout project -- very bloated and quickly becomes slow to load for complex layouts, which is unfortunate because the user interface is dead simple to use to lay out your site.

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