From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Mar 4 4:34:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from complx.LF.net (complx.LF.net [195.206.130.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D66C1522C for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 04:33:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pi@complx.LF.net) Received: by complx.LF.net (Smail3.2.0.103/complx.LF.net) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services from pi for freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG for host hub.FreeBSD.ORG id m10IXJV-000zycC; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:33:17 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Subject: Re: Mail server setup To: stuart@eclipse.net.uk (Stuart Henderson) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:33:17 +0100 (CET) From: "Kurt Jaeger" Cc: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton), haifeng@ms.lawton.com.cn (Haifeng Guo), freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36DE58A9.E048B6EA@eclipse.net.uk> from "Stuart Henderson" at Mar 04, 1999 09:55:53 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! > > I don't imagine you really want to have to organise 100,000 > > users into changing their pop server settings. You can > > probably multiplex your domain name out to multiple machines > > all connecting via NFS (probably a dedicated mini-network > > between the servers), and have all of your mail stored on > > one file system. > You could have a daemon on a cluster of machines (either DNS or > NAT-based load balancing) to answer port 110, examine the username to > choose a server and proxy off the connection. Aren't NFS mounted mail > spools generally a Bad Thing? Depends on the setup. Have a look at: http://www.earthlink.net/company/mail_arch.html It describes their e-mail architecture for quite a large user community. -- MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 years to go ! LF.net GmbH pi@LF.net Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 211 179253-11 For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit-- it's the only way to be sure." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message