From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 15:00:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9C916A4E2 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:00:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.nic.fr (mx2.nic.fr [192.134.4.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A815743D45 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:00:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bortzmeyer@nic.fr) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mx2.nic.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D0A26C080 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:00:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maya40.nic.fr (maya40.nic.fr [192.134.4.151]) by mx2.nic.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E60026C079 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:00:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vespucci.nic.fr (postfix@vespucci.nic.fr [192.134.4.68]) by maya40.nic.fr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i9JF0c8q946522 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:00:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by vespucci.nic.fr (Postfix, from userid 1055) id 72712FACE; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:00:38 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:00:38 +0200 From: Stephane Bortzmeyer To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041019150038.GA25910@nic.fr> References: <20041012212051.5A91A148D1@mail.sources.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041012212051.5A91A148D1@mail.sources.org> X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable X-Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-k7 i686 Organization: NIC France X-URL: http://www.nic.fr/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040818i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mx2.nic.fr X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: Documentation of big "mail systems"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:00:42 -0000 --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:20:51PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > I'm currently writing a proposal for a webmail service for, say, 50 > 000 to 500 000 users. I'm looking for description of existing "big > mail" systems, using technologies like scalemail > (http://scalemail.sourceforge.net/), specially with an emphasis on > the storage subsystem for the servers (my weak point, I don't really > have enough experience with SAN, NAS, and so on). Here is a first bibliography (XML and BibTex). Thanks for all those who replied. It is funny to note that the storage is hardly discussed in the papers. It's probably less fun than LDAP and Postfix but I believe it is more critical. --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="examples.bib" % DO NOT EDIT! % Automatically produced by libxslt (http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/) @MISC{cambridge.doc, author = {David Carter}, title = {Scaling up Cambridge University's email service}, year = 2004, note = {\url{http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2004-02-ukuug/paper.html}}, } @MISC{outblaze.doc, author = {Suresh Ramasubramanian}, title = {Managing Millions Of Mailboxes. Capacity and Performance Lessons}, year = 2004, note = {\url{http://www.hserus.net/mailboxes-srs-inboxevent2004.ppt}}, } @MISC{earthlink.doc, author = {Nick Christenson}, author = {Tim Bosserman}, author = {David Beckemeyer}, title = {A Highly Scalable Electronic Mail Service Using Open Systems}, year = 1997, note = {\url{http://www.gangofone.com/~npc/doc/mail_arch.html}}, } @MISC{exim.doc, author = {Yann Golanski}, title = {The Exim Mail Transfer Agent in a Large Scale Deployment}, year = 2000, note = {\url{http://www.nndg.york.ac.uk/staff/yann/lsm.ps}}, } --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO--