Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:28:55 -1000 From: "David J. Orman" <ormandj@corenode.com> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IAMP servers in FreeBSD for ISP Message-ID: <E3610BF5-85C3-4476-91D1-934C144DC1B4@corenode.com> In-Reply-To: <cone.1152240742.658037.2598.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <cone.1152240742.658037.2598.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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I had good luck with Dovecot and a few thousand accounts (some with over 5 gigs of mail) prior to switching over to JES (JES is great, but wait for version 5 if you are interested. 4 is very, very complex to get working properly.) So, Dovecot for now, JES5 if you are interested once it's released (I believe 4th quarter '06). http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/ Yes, JES is free now (without support.) David On Jul 6, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Anyone care to share what IMAP servers they have found to scale best? > > We are currently using courier and at times it seems it really will > not scale well into thousands of emails. > > We have basically one setup with self contained machines that do > all the work and a second setup where we break the load into MX > machines, NFS to store the maildir for courier and front end > machines to run courier and NFS. > > We can handle hundreds of accounts in the self contained, more or > less ok (depending on the mix of pop or imap). > > The second setup is more complex to meassure since the load is > distributed. The biggest problem with this second setup is that the > front end machines end up needing to mount several of the Maildir > NFS servers and we have found that one of the NFS servers going > down can affect all of the front end machines. > > What have others found to scale well and what kind of hardware are > you using? _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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