Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:14:39 +0000 From: Neil Levine <levine@clara.net> To: Alan Judge <Alan.Judge@indigo.ie> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scalable mail server Message-ID: <19980313131439.40805@clara.net> In-Reply-To: <199803131236.EAA17875@hub.freebsd.org>; from Alan Judge on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 12:36:40PM %2B0000 References: <199803131236.EAA17875@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 12:36:40PM +0000, Alan Judge said: > > We're doing exactly this in production. Four PPro boxes running > 2.2-STABLE and qmail (as well as Apache for user web access); all the > data is stored on a NetApp filer, with nothing but OS stuff and the > qmail mail queues on local disk. We use Maildir format for storing Perosnally, I am more interested in ways of making the mail server scalable by having distributed data. If all the Maildirs are stored on the one NetApp it is not exactly an infinitly scalable solution. What would be nice is a simple(!) way of spreading the mailboxes between multiple machines with say a couple of customer facing machines handling incoming port 25 and 110 connections. That way you can have users a-e on one box f-l, on another etc, the customer facing machine then needs a way of knowing what is where. Using /etc/passwd is a no go area. SQL based or Radius based user verification is essential nowdays for large servers. Neil -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Levine ClaraNet(UK) Ltd. levine@clara.net http://www.clara.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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