From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 6 07:54:31 2005 Return-Path: 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 6800016A4CE for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 07:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from allrounder.lame.at (mail.softlink.at [195.58.166.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4CD43D92 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 07:54:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from haimat@lame.at) Received: from itchy.lame.at (unknown [213.235.192.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by allrounder.lame.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4F030317 for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 09:54:29 +0200 (CEST) From: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 09:54:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505041258.39573.haimat@lame.at> In-Reply-To: <200505041258.39573.haimat@lame.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505060954.27005.haimat@lame.at> Subject: Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 07:54:31 -0000 thanks for all your info guys! ---------- quoting Matthias F. Brandstetter ---------- > Hi all, > > I have to plan and setup a mail solution for about 50.000 users, here > are some key features requested by our customer: > > - self coded webfrontend w/ webmail and administration (filter, alias > etc) - 100MB quota per user > - autoresponder > - about 50.000 user > - online backup of data > - some more featuers for web frontend > > Since I happily use qmail for some other (but smaller) installations, I > want to try it with qmail here for this project as well. My only problem > is, I have no clue where to start ... beginning from "should I use 2 > redundant and really strong or some more but cheaper servers?" to "which > qmail distributions and patches should I use (ldap, mysql, ...)?" and > "how to store data (mails) and do online backup w/o downtime?". > > I know you can't give me _the_ solution for this issue, but I am > thankful for any hints and internet links on this topic. > > I am sure you guys can help me :) > Greetings and TIA, Matthias -- Marge: Homer, you're his father. You've got to reason with him. Homer: Oh, that never works. He's a goner! Bart the Daredevil