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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:33:17 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Kurt Jaeger" <pi@complx.LF.net>
To:        stuart@eclipse.net.uk (Stuart Henderson)
Cc:        andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton), haifeng@ms.lawton.com.cn (Haifeng Guo), freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mail server setup
Message-ID:  <m10IXJV-000zycC@complx.LF.net>
In-Reply-To: <36DE58A9.E048B6EA@eclipse.net.uk> from "Stuart Henderson" at Mar 04, 1999 09:55:53 AM

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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.

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