From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 17:08:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECAC16A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:08:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rjbsd@astrokid.com) Received: from mail.astrokid.com (dsl081-051-214.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.51.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD3F43D45 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:08:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rjbsd@astrokid.com) Received: (qmail 73586 invoked by uid 80); 9 Feb 2006 17:09:17 -0000 Received: from 64.81.51.215 (SquirrelMail authenticated user rjacoby@astrokid.com) by www.astrokid.com with HTTP; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:09:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <65064.64.81.51.215.1139504956.squirrel@www.astrokid.com> In-Reply-To: <44irrozl0q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <200602090700.k1970DiJ095554@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <18e02bd30602090026h2e297677sc6742cbb653aede5@mail.gmail.com> <200602090910.k199AKB6011124@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <44irrozl0q.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:09:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Rafi Jacoby" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Mail back-up system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rjbsd@astrokid.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 17:08:21 -0000 > Olivier Nicole writes: > >> > I read the article and the idea is good. But i would like to know what >> MTA >> > are you using..In the paper you said that at first the email is >> strored in >> > Mailbox format. Isn`t that a bottleneck. WHat are the loads of the >> machines= >> >> Considering we have only 200 users and 3000 messages per day, whatever >> would do. >> >> MTA is sendmail/milter. >> >> I plan to change that mailbox thing when I get budget for a new >> machine to play with (I don't want to take the risk to break the >> working configuration). > > Mailbox format might not be a bottleneck in this application. It's > fairly efficient at appending new messages, and that is the only > common operation being performed on these backup mail spools. I could see this as an advantage of the Maildirs format. Since every mail is stored in its own file (versus concatenation in Mbox), it's much cheaper to backup. Just copy all the new/touched files, not all your mail. I just have a second disk on the server that I rsync everything to on an hourly basis. I use Matt Simerson's excellent Mail Toaster scripts for FreeBSD, which create a full mail server using vpopmail, courier, maildirs, spam/virus filtering, webmail. If you are switching to Maildirs anyway, I recommend trying it out. http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster/ -Rafi