Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 23:16:41 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: e-mail server farm question Message-ID: <20060522231641.7d63db65@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <4471ECAA.3030406@daleco.biz> References: <4471ABF0.3090804@ispro.net.tr> <6.0.0.22.2.20060522102107.0274be28@mail.computinginnovations.com> <4471ECAA.3030406@daleco.biz>
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On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:54:02 -0500 Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote: > > At 07:17 AM 5/22/2006, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I was wondering how does services like yahoo mail is storing > >> e-mails. Somehow the smtp server should know where to deliver > >> the mail inside the system and webmail should know from which > >> server to read it from. > >> > >> Does anybody have any practical ideas about how it is done? > >> > Derek Ragona wrote: > > If you are using sendmail, as most FreeBSD users are, you can > > check the sendmail.org site for information on mail handling. > > There are a number of methods that depend on your setup. > > > > Well, it's pretty obvious that they aren't using a stock > SendMail: > > # telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 25 > Trying 67.28.113.72... > Connected to mx2.mail.yahoo.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 mta309.mail.re4.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready > > Short of finding an article written by someone 'in the know', > or an answer for someone like that, we can only guess. I'd > probably start with guessing a big DB on a large SAN; > which pretty much negates the "which server to read from" > question (up to a point). Everything else is pretty > academic. SMTP, IMAP, POP. Maildir makes it easy to distribute it across multiple machines as well.
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